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Leonard Edward Read

“MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is to keep the peace...Keeping the peace means no more than prohibiting persons from unpeaceful actions...When government goes beyond this, that is, when government prohibits peaceful actions, such prohibitions themselves are, prima facie, unpeaceful.”

Leonard E. Read, Anything That's Peaceful
tags: libertarian
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Anything That's Peaceful Anything That's Peaceful by Leonard Edward Read
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