Frases de Leonard Read

Leonard E. Read fue el fundador de la Foundation for Economic Education, que fue el primer instituto libertario moderno en los Estados Unidos.

Read también fue la persona que desarrolla el uso del término «libertario» para individualista pro libre mercado cuando comienza a llamarse a sí mismo «libertario» en contraste con «liberal moderno» —quienes se habían apropiado del término «liberal» en un sentido más intervencionista en Estados Unidos— y para evitar llamarse «liberal clásico» ya que, según Read, «clásico» daría una impresión de «viejo, obsoleto y tallado en piedra».[1]​

Después de una temporada en el Servicio Aéreo del Ejército durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, Read comenzó un negocio de comestibles al por mayor en Ann Arbor, Míchigan, que tuvo éxito, pero finalmente salió del negocio. Se mudó a California, donde comenzó una nueva carrera en la pequeña Cámara de Comercio de Burlingame, cerca de San Francisco. Read gradualmente subió su posición en la jerarquía de la Cámara de Comercio de los Estados Unidos, para finalmente convertirse en el gerente general de la rama de Los Ángeles, la más grande de América, en 1939.

Durante este período, sus puntos de vista se hicieron progresivamente más libertarios. Aparentemente, fue en 1933, durante una reunión con W.C. Mullendore, un ejecutivo de Southern California Edison, que Read fue finalmente convencido de que el New Deal era totalmente ineficaz y era moralmente una bancarrota. Durante el período en que trabajó para la Cámara de Comercio, Read también fue profundamente influido por Albert Jay Nock.

Read también fue profundamente influenciado por sus creencias religiosas. Su pastor, el reverendo James W. Fifield, fue ministro de los 4.000 miembros de la First Congregational Church de Los Ángeles, de la que Read fue también un miembro de la junta. Fifield dirigió un «movimiento de resistencia» contra el «evangelio social» del New Deal, tratando de convencer a los ministros de todo el país de adoptar «ideales espirituales» libertarios.

En 1945, Virgil Jordan, el Presidente de la National Industrial Conference Board , en Nueva York, invitó a Read a convertirse en su vicepresidente ejecutivo. Read se dio cuenta de que tendría que dejar el NICB para seguir a tiempo completo la promoción de los principios de libre mercado y de gobierno limitado. Renunció como resultado.[2]​[3]​

Un donante de su corto tiempo en NICB, David M. Goodrich, alentó a Read a iniciar su propia organización. Con la ayuda de Goodrich, así como la ayuda financiera del William Volker Found y de Harold Luhnow, Read fundó la Foundation for Economic Education en 1946. Él continuó trabajando con FEE hasta su muerte en 1983. Read fue autor de 29 libros, algunos de los cuales todavía están en papel y son vendidos por la FEE. Escribió numerosos ensayos incluyendo el conocido Yo, el lápiz. Entre otras actividades, Leonard Read fue miembro de la Sociedad Mont Pelerin, participó como profesor del Rampart College y recibió un doctorado Honorífico en la Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. septiembre 1898 – 14. mayo 1983
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Leonard Read: Frases en inglés

“It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule.”

The Coming Aristocracy https://fee.org/resources/the-coming-aristocracy-2/
Contexto: It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone calls, planes the airlines buy, autos by the millions - no one could list the instances - are as represented. We have daily, eloquent, enormous testimony that the Ten Commandments can be and are observed by fallible human beings. Contemporary politics is the most glaring of all exceptions.

“In mar­ket terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing ex­change. That is all!”

Business is Entitled to a Fair Profit, BUSINESS IS ENTITLED TO A FAIR PROFIT http://www.themoralliberal.com/2015/03/18/business-is-entitled-to-a-fair-profit/
Contexto: Assuming the market is free from fraud, violence, misrepresen­tation, and predation, the economic failure or success of any individ­ual is measured by what he can obtain in willing exchange—fair­ness being a state of affairs that is presupposed in the assumption. Everyone, according to any moral code I would respect, is entitled to fairness in the sense of no special privilege to anyone and open op­portunity for all; no one is entit­led to what is implied by a fair price, a fair wage, a fair salary, a fair rent, or a fair profit. In mar­ket terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing ex­change. That is all!

“The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this lesson.”

I, Pencil (1958), I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
Contexto: The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this lesson. Let society's legal apparatus remove all obstacles the best it can. Permit these creative know-hows freely to flow. Have faith that free men and women will respond to the Invisible Hand. This faith will be confirmed.

“Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.”

Anything That's Peaceful (1964)
Contexto: Socialism depends upon and presupposes material achievements which socialism itself can never create. Socialism is operative only in wealth situations brought about by motes of production other than its own. Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

“Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct it. How, for instance, can one compare a socialized post office with private postal delivery when the latter has been outlawed?”

Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism https://books.google.com/books?id=W3MuCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT25&dq=Once+an+activity+has+been+socialized,+it+is+impossible+to+point+out,+by+concrete+example,+how+men+in+a+free+market+could+better+conduct+it.+How,+for+instance,+can+one+compare+a+socialized+post+office+with+private+postal+delivery+when+the+latter+has+been+outlawed?&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilwZqz9PLTAhXGOyYKHSjJCk8Q6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=Once%20an%20activity%20has%20been%20socialized%2C%20it%20is%20impossible%20to%20point%20out%2C%20by%20concrete%20example%2C%20how%20men%20in%20a%20free%20market%20could%20better%20conduct%20it.%20How%2C%20for%20instance%2C%20can%20one%20compare%20a%20socialized%20post%20office%20with%20private%20postal%20delivery%20when%20the%20latter%20has%20been%20outlawed%3F&f=false
Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism

“There 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.”

Essays on Liberty (1954), Essays on Liberty https://books.google.com/books?id=SugpAQAAMAAJ&dq=There+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.&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22There+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.%22

“Statism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is no moral — only a legal — distinction between petty thievery and political Robin Hoodism, which is to say, there is no moral difference between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax or any other piece of socialization.”

Anything That's Peaceful https://books.google.com/books?id=4wWA1vexxdsC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=%22is+but+socialized+dishonesty;+it+is+feathering+the+nests+of+some+with+feathers+coercively+plucked+from+others+-+on+the+grand+scale.%22&source=bl&ots=1I89gu9Jmo&sig=8jpm9FnYbB87c8BB_twGQw8CC7o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIuZ_58vLTAhXD4SYKHbHVAncQ6AEILDAB#v=onepage&q=%22is%20but%20socialized%20dishonesty%3B%20it%20is%20feathering%20the%20nests%20of%20some%20with%20feathers%20coercively%20plucked%20from%20others%20-%20on%20the%20grand%20scale.%22&f=false
Anything That's Peaceful (1964)

“The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of man nor any combination of minds can even envision, let alone intelligently control, the countless human energy exchanges in a simple society, to say nothing of a complex one.”

The More Complex the Society, the More Government Control We Need https://books.google.com/books?id=W3MuCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT18&lpg=PT18&dq=The+more+complex+our+economy,+the+more+we+should+rely+on+the+miraculous,+self-adapting+processes+of+men+acting+freely.+No+mind+of+man+nor+any+combination+of+minds+can+even+envision,+let+alone+intelligently+control,+the+countless+human+energy+exchanges+in+a+simple+society,+to+say+nothing+of+a+complex+one.&source=bl&ots=OZxiANz5bm&sig=QP-xiNhoDNxDDMB1mcR25NuqEl4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq04eE9_LTAhVMKyYKHWh_BGEQ6AEIKjAB#v=onepage&q=The%20more%20complex%20our%20economy%2C%20the%20more%20we%20should%20rely%20on%20the%20miraculous%2C%20self-adapting%20processes%20of%20men%20acting%20freely.%20No%20mind%20of%20man%20nor%20any%20combination%20of%20minds%20can%20even%20envision%2C%20let%20alone%20intelligently%20control%2C%20the%20countless%20human%20energy%20exchanges%20in%20a%20simple%20society%2C%20to%20say%20nothing%20of%20a%20complex%20one.&f=false
Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism

“Communism, socialism, the welfare state, et cetera, are essentially one and the same thing.”

Leonard Read Journals, November 5, 1951 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1951/leonard-e-read-journal-november-1951/

“Freedom is the key to Godliness”

Leonard Read Journals, October 24, 1951 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1951/leonard-e-read-journal-october-1951/

“Self-promotion is self-defeating. No matter how brilliant an individual, one becomes instinctively "leery" when he toots his own horn.”

Leonard Read Journals, September 18, 1959 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1959/leonard-e-read-journal-september-1959

“Socialism is founded on a lie -- the premise that man knows more than he in fact does know.”

Leonard Read Journals, September 18, 1959 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1959/leonard-e-read-journal-september-1959

“At one end of the intellectual spectrum are the wise, those who know they don't know much; and on the other end are the egotists, those who have little, if any, awareness of how little they know.”

Leonard Read Journals, September 6, 1959 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1959/leonard-e-read-journal-september-1959

“Civilization, I sometimes think, is little more than a thin veneer of culture covering a host of red-assed baboons!”

Leonard Read Journals, November 11, 1951 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1951/leonard-e-read-journal-november-1951/

“All creative thought and creative action is strictly personal. A committee, any collective, cannot think. It cannot act creatively. It can only act destructively. It can exercise brute force.”

Leonard Read Journals, November 4, 1951 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1951/leonard-e-read-journal-november-1951/

“What would you cut out of government expenditures?”

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.”

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

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