It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demanding a preliminary clearance of pedigree, nationality, color, race, religion, or wealth. It demands only that each person abide by voluntary principles, that is, by fair play. The free market means willing exchange; it is impersonal justice in the economic sphere and excludes coercion, plunder, theft, protectionism, and other anti-free market ways by which goods and services change hands.
Leonard ReadTrue, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'
Leonard ReadGovernments 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.
Leonard ReadThere is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only individuals can combat statism.
Leonard ReadSocialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.
Leonard Read