ONE WAY TO ASSESS THE FUTURE

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

—EDMUND BURKE

HAVE A STRONG CLEAR PURPOSE

There is no road to success but through a strong dear purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, advancement of every sort.

—T. T. MUNGER

STRIVE TO BE A NOBLEMAN

True nobility is derived from virtue, not from birth. Title may be purchased, but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain valid.

—RICHARD E. BURTON

What a noble observation by this American author and professor of English (1861-1940)! “Nobleman,” in its generic sense, is a man or woman inheriting at birth such titles as King, Lord, Prince, Duke, or a woman having the rank of “peer in her own right.”

Acton, Lord, 12, 85

Addison, Joseph, 9

Almeron, René, 76

Andrews, Donald Hatch, 72. 94

Arnold, Thomas, 2, 100

Augustine (Saint), 14

Ballou, Hosea, 70

Beecher, Henry Ward, 43, 54, 82

Bismarck, Otto von, 53

Bovee, Christian N., 71, 91

Brooke, Stopford, 56

Browning, Robert, 73

Bulwer-Lytton, Edw., 2, 25, 111

Burke, Edmund, 1, 3, 12, 68, 102, 105

Burton, Richard E., 114

Butler, Samuel, 85, 108

Byron, Lord, 84

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

1977

TO:

. . . all those, in every land, who are awake to the opportunities freedom affords.

AWAKE FOR FREEDOM’S SAKE

Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust.

—ISAIAH 26:19

All of us “dwell in dust,” more or less, and the dust is thickest where there is an unawareness that we so dwell. To awake means nothing less than a coming to ourselves; it implies a realization of our dustiness. And to sing—according to my interpretation of this Old Testament admonition—is personally to harmonize with intellectual, moral, and spiritual progression.