Archive for Leonard E. Read
Leonard Read (1898–1983) was the founder and first president of FEE.
Education for One’s Own Sake
In previous chapters I have tried to demonstrate that government is organized police force and that its function is to keep the peace; that education is a peaceful, creative, productive pursuit of the type disastrously affected by government intervention. Now, were government to step aside in education as it has stepped aside in religion — [...]
1Feb1993 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedTwo Kinds of Influence
Leonard E. Read established The Foundation for Economic Education in 1946 and served as its president until his death in 1983. He wrote this article in 1954. Most persons have some notion of their dependence on others. Most of us realize that we cannot by ourselves build the houses in which we live, raise the [...]
1May1992 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedGlory Be!
Leonard E. Read founded the Foundation for Economic Education in 1946 and served as its President until his death in 1983. He was a philosopher, teacher, and exemplar. This article was adapted from the December 1978 Freeman. True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and [...]
1Dec1990 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedPenalty of Surrender
Editors’ Note: Leonard E. Read founded The Foundation for Economic Education in 1946 and served as its President until his death in 1983. He was a philosopher, teacher, and exemplar. It is difficult to measure the full influence of Leonard Read. He wrote more than two dozen books and hundreds of articles, delivered over a [...]
1Sep1988 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedHow to Gain Liberty
Leonard E. Read was the founder of The Foundation for Economic Education in 1946, and its president until his death in 1983, This article was first published in 1955, How can we best achieve a free society? Self-improvement is the only answer. “I want less talk and more action.” Thus speak Americans when they suddenly [...]
1Jan1986 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedA Page on Freedom: Number 21
Legalized Plunder What are we to think of those who have a libertarian bent, of those who pay lip service to the free society, and then go on to assert, “We’re paying for it, so we might as well get our share.” What sincerity or depth can be ascribed to their lip service? Do not [...]
1Jul1985 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedA Page on Freedom: Number 19
Security and Freedom Many Victims wander unwittingly into socialism, gulled by assumptions they have not tested. One popular but misleading assumption is that security and freedom are mutually exclusive alternatives—that to choose one is to forgo the other. In the United States during the past century more people achieved greater material security than their ancestors [...]
1May1985 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedI, Pencil
From The Freeman, December 1958. I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write.* * My official name is “Mongol 482.” My many ingredients are assembled, fabricated, and finished by Eberhard Faber Pencil Company, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Writing is both my vocation and my [...]
1Nov1983 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedGlory Be!
True glory consists of the service of truth and freedom.
1Dec1978 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedThe School of Mankind
The power of example in teaching and learning.
1Sep1975 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedThank God for the Mess We’re In
The mess is a timely warning to change course if we would avert disaster.
1Mar1975 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedThose Things Called Money
Why not leave decisions about money to the fantastic wisdom of the market?
1Jan1975 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedCastles in the Air
Progress comes as men put foundations under worthy dreams.
1Nov1974 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedLaws Versus Tyranny
Obedience to the moral law brings peace and harmony.
1Oct1974 | Leonard E. Read | 1 comment | ContinuedReflections on Gullibility
The better we see our blessings the less vulnerable we are to “costless” panaceas.
1Sep1974 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Rare Moment
The problem is to see a better idea, and then pursue it with integrity.
1Jul1974 | Leonard E. Read | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Blessings of Diversity
Were all alike, instead of free, t’would mean the end of me and thee.
1May1974 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | Continued-
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