Murray Rothbard

The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

— Murray Rothbard

All government wars are unjust.

— Murray Rothbard

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

— Murray Rothbard

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

— Murray Rothbard

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

— Murray Rothbard

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

— Murray Rothbard

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

— Murray Rothbard

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

— Murray Rothbard

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

— Murray Rothbard

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

— Murray Rothbard

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

— Murray Rothbard

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

— Murray Rothbard

True # anarchism will be # capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.

— Murray Rothbard

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

— Murray Rothbard

In the United States, after World War II, it took about two decades for the message to slowly seep in that inflation…

— Murray Rothbard

If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these…

— Murray Rothbard

John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged…

— Murray Rothbard

It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for…

— Murray Rothbard

Out of the bitter experiences of the panic of 1819 emerged the beginnings of the Jacksonian movement, dedicated to hard money, the…

— Murray Rothbard

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers,…

— Murray Rothbard

Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year…

— Murray Rothbard

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of…

— Murray Rothbard

In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who…

— Murray Rothbard

If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government,…

— Murray Rothbard

Many and subtle are the ideological weapons that the State has wielded through the centuries. Once excellent weapon has been tradition. The…

— Murray Rothbard

The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom…

— Murray Rothbard

The Panic of 1819 exerted a profound effect on American economic thought. As the first great financial depression, similar to a modern…

— Murray Rothbard

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

The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other…

— Murray Rothbard

The successful entrepreneurs on the free market will be the ones most adept at anticipating future business conditions. Yet, the forecasting can…

— Murray Rothbard

The drum-fire of propaganda that the Fed is manning the ramparts against the menace of inflation brought about by others is nothing…

— Murray Rothbard

There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded…

— Murray Rothbard

In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its…

— Murray Rothbard

We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate…

— Murray Rothbard

This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic."…

— Murray Rothbard

“The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing "democracy" and the strong unitary nation-state:…

— Murray Rothbard

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest…

— Murray Rothbard

[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

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

— Murray Rothbard

The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.

— Murray Rothbard