The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of… — 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
Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of… — 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
Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of… — 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
In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a… — 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
![“Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive, exploitative, parasitic, and hence profoundly antisocial. The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness…” quote by Murray Rothbard](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/60b/murray-rothbard-1563_antisocial_instead-of-a-bumbling-and-inefficient-to_3059596.jpg)
