DOCTOR, WHOEVER YOU ARE1

Doctor, whoever you are, come heal this sickness!

LET FREEDOM REIGN!

The lad who later became my friend ran away from home and school at the age of fourteen, never to return to either one. Uncommonly brilliant, energetic, egotistical, ambitious, audacious, his rise in the world of letters and business was meteoric. Within a few years after reaching the top, he failed, returning to the rank of the unknowns from whence he had come.

Perfect freedom is here defined as an absence of man-concocted restraints against the release of creative energy. This is to say that freedom is a consequence of human actions. Slavery, on the other hand, is also a consequence of human actions, actions which restrain creative energy release!

Prepared by Vernelia Crawford

References to chapters under the appropriate subject classification are hyphenated. The number in each other instance refers to the first page of a discussion. A page number followed by the letter “n” indicates a footnote reference.

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Action, art of, 100-106

Agreement, 87-92, 93

Air pollution, 2

America. See United States of America

Aptitudes, 32

Argentina’s Constitution, 13

Audiences, 108

Romance of Reality (o.p.)

Pattern for Revolt

Instead of Violence

Outlook for Freedom (o.p.)

Government: An Ideal Concept

Governo Um Concito Ideal

Why Not Try Freedom?

¿Por Que No Ensayar la Libertad?

Elements of Libertarian Leadership

Anything That’s Peaceful

Todo Por la Paz

The Free Market and Its Enemy

El Enemigo del Mercado Libre

Deeper Than You Think

Leonard E. Read has been president of The Foundation for Economic Education since it was organized in 1946.

The Foundation is a nonpolitical, nonprofit, educational institution. Its senior staff and numerous writers are students as well as teachers of the free market, private ownership, limited government rationale. Sample copies of the Foundation’s monthly study journal, The Freeman, are available on request.

The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.(www.fee.org)

Irvington-on-Hudson, New York 10533

1976

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Those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being no hearers that forget, but doers that act.

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

—Collyer

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

—Whately

Faith is to believe, on the word of God, what we do not see, and its reward is to see and enjoy what we believe.

—Augustine

Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.