Portrait of William Leggett

Quotes by William Leggett

1801 – 1839

William Leggett (1801-1839) was a Jacksonian era journalist and the intellectual leader of the laissez-faire wing of Jacksonian democracy He was a founder of the Plain Dealer and began his career as a poet and gravitated toward writing impassioned editorials in support of individual liberties and private property rights while working with William Cullen Bryant at the Evening Post.

Bio

See the Liberty Matters online discussion on William Leggett: Free Trade, Hard Money, and Abolitionism

Titles

Politics & Liberty

Leggett on the tendency of the government to become “the universal dispenser of good and evil” (1834)

William Leggett

Money & Banking

William Leggett on the separation of bank and state (1837)

William Leggett

Religion & Toleration

William Leggett argues that Thanksgiving Day is no business of the government (1836)

William Leggett