“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land ("the public domain"), streets and highways, rivers and… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The fact is that libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only a political… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“It is not so evident why intellectuals need the State. Put simply, we may state that the intellectual’s livelihood in the free market is… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“Passports were originally created to provide safe conduct in time of war. During most of the eighteenth century it seldom occurred to Europeans to… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“Legal and political theory have committed much mischief by failing to pinpoint physical invasion as the only human action that should be illegal and… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“So identified has the State become in the public mind with the provision of these services that an attack on State financing appears to… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“Dutt effectively concluded with a quote from an editor of the highly respected Current History Magazine: The new America [the editor had written in… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a “social contract”;… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also “voluntary” on the… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“In this century, the human race faces, once again, the virulent reign of the State—of the State now armed with the fruits of man’s… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
“For while libertarians have too often been opportunists who lose sight of or under-cut their ultimate goal, some have erred in the opposite direction:… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share
