If the bureaucracy is not checked, it will tend to build, in the name of peace, a defense … - Leonard Read

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

Leonard Read

If the bureaucracy is not checked, it will tend to build, in the name of peace, a defense against every conceivable contingency - so much 'security' that 'the secured' are without resources - helpless and hopeless.

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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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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up. '

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I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

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I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

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