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Leonard Read Quotes: Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.
         

Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.


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In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!



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What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.



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

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



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There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.



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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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There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.



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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.



The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.





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