documentHTML: Hillsdale College's IMPRIMIS, December 1983
REMEMBERING LEONARD READ
A Special Kind of Leadership
By George C. Rocbe III
President, Hillsdale College and tbe Sbavano Institute
"Allofthe darkness in the world," Leonard Read
once told me, "cannot overcome the light shed by a
single candle."
All his life, Leonard's great passion was to feed the
illuminating flame ofeconomic opportunity, political
freedom, and moral responsibility.
After a successful early career with the Chamberof
Co...