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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.

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Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.

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The greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

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No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.

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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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Leonard Read

Leonard Read

Born: September 26, 1898
Died: May 14, 1983 (aged 84)
Bio: Leonard Edward Read was the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, which was one of the first modern libertarian institutions of its kind in the United States. He wrote 29 books and numerous essays, including the well-known "I, Pencil".
Known for:
  1. Awake for freedom's sake (1977)
  2. Castles in the air (1975)
  3. The coming aristocracy (1969)
  4. Accent on the right (1968)
  5. Liberty, legacy of truth (1978)

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