I, Pencil Quotes

“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. I, Pencil, seemingly simple though I am, offer the miracle of my creation as testimony that this is a practical faith, as practical as the sun, the rain, a cedar tree, the good earth.”
― Leonard E. Read, I, Pencil: My Family Tree As Told to Leonard E. Read

“For, the wise G. K. Chesterton observed, “We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
― Leonard E. Read, I, Pencil: My Family Tree As Told to Leonard E. Read