All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is no need for government to intervene in money and prices because of changing population or for any other reason. The… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If government wishes to see a depression ended as quickly as possible and the economy returned to normal prosperity, what course should… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental'… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and abroad. Therefore, they have a vested interest… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Gold and silver are always in demand, regardless of clime, century, or government in power. But public confidence in and, hence, demand… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The threat of gold redeemability imposes a constant check and limit on inflationary issues of government paper. If the government can remove… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The Jacksonians were libertarians, plain and simple. Their program and ideology were libertarian; they strongly favored free enterprise and free markets, but… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from service voluntarily purchased on the market, but from a compulsory levy… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In order to continue in office, any government (not simply a 'democratic' government) must have the support of the majority of its… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In the market, the fittest are those most able to serve the consumers; in government, the fittest are those most adept at… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Leading the boom of 1838 were state governments, who, finding themselves with the unexpected windfall of a distributed surplus from the federal… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its actions virtual Holy Writ for the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important directions to be pursued in the 'sciences of human action' is to develop a natural-law ethics based… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and need never… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
The underconsumptionist of 1819 believed that consumption would be stimulated by tariffs, while the underconsumptionist of a later day urged monetary expansion as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
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