The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution. - Leonard Read - Quotesmemo.com

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Leonard Read

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

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The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.

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Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

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There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need. '

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I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of in habiting the destructive actions of man and invoking a common justice; the extent to which government has invaded the productive and creative areas; the extent to which the government in this country has assumed the responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of our people is a measure of the extent to which socialism has developed here in this land of ours.

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The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

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I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

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