Leonard Read Quotes About Prosperity

Quotes about: Prosperity

• Whenever government assumed 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 Read

  Responsibility, Government, Citizens

• Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Government, People

• I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of in habiting the destructive actions of man and invoking a common justice; the extent to which government has invaded the productive and creative areas; the extent to which the government in this country has assumed the responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of our people is a measure of the extent to which socialism has developed here in this land of ours.

  Leonard Read

  Country, Responsibility, Men

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

  Leonard Read

  Errors, Prosperity, Greater

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