Leonard E. Read: Governance

Leonard E. Read was American academic. Explore interesting quotes on governance.
Leonard E. Read: 46   quotes 0   likes

“A fact rarely suspected, let alone understood, is that businessmen are by no means the chief beneficiaries of the free market, private ownership, limited government way of life. Many business ventures fail entirely. Who then are the beneficiaries? The masses!”

Leonard E. Read
Life , Way , Business

“Whenever government assumes responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies.”

Leonard E. Read

I Prefer Security to Freedom (1962)

“What would you cut out of government expenditures?”

Leonard E. Read

I cannot answer that question. Ask me what I would leave in.
Leonard Read Journals, October 17, 1951 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1951/leonard-e-read-journal-october-1951/

“I have never met a single European who had a clean, clear-cut understanding of the principles of strictly limited government.”

Leonard E. Read

Source: Leonard Read Journals, July 1, 1949 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1949/leonard-e-read-journal-july-1949/

Understanding