11. Three Levels of Leadership
• CHAPTER 11 •
THREE LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP
IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS, I have claimed that any widening of libertarian understanding rests on the emergence from numerous walks of life of a corps of creative thinkers, writers, talkers of the free market, private property, limited government philosophy with its moral and spiritual antecedents.
12. Can Busy People Become Libertarian Leaders?
• CHAPTER 12 •
CAN BUSY PEOPLE BECOME LIBERTARIAN LEADERS?
A YOUNG BUSINESSMAN with whom I have a firsthand acquaintance has just begun a new and technical enterprise—from scratch and on a shoestring—straining all his energies and thoughts with only one end in view: getting his entrepreneurial duckling airborne. All other activities have been relegated to second place.
13. Liberated!
• CHAPTER 13 •
LIBERATED!
“HOW LONG have you been interested in this philosophy?” I asked the graduate student in education, who wanted to learn more about the subject of freedom.
Anything That’s Peaceful
Anythingthat’s Peaceful
ANYTHING
THAT’S PEACEFUL
Title Page
THAT’S PEACEFUL
The Case for the Free Market
LEONARD E. READ
The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.
Irvington-on-Hudson, New York 1964
The Author and Publisher
THE AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER
Leonard E. Read, author of Conscience of the Majority, Government—An Ideal Concept, Miracle of the Market, Students of Liberty, Why Not Try Freedom?, Elements of Libertarian Leadership, and other books and articles, is President of the Foundation for Economic Education, organized in 1946.
The Foundation is an educational champion of private ownership, the free market, the profit and loss system, and limited government. It is nonprofit and nonpolitical. Sample copies of the Foundation’s monthly study journal, THE FREEMAN, are available on request.
Copyright Page
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1964
Copyright 1964, by Leonard E. Read. Permission to reprint granted without special request. • PRINTED IN U.S.A.
Dedication
Many favor peace but not many favor
the things that make for peace.
—THOMAS A KEMPIS
1. A Break with Prevailing Faith
• CHAPTER 1 •
A BREAK WITH
PREVAILING FAITH
GALILEO WAS CALLED on the carpet, tried by the Inquisition, and put in prison because he affirmed the theory of Copernicus that the solar system does not revolve around our earth. The truth as he perceived it was a break with the prevailing faith; he committed the unpardonable sin of affronting the mores. This was his guilt.
