Facts Quotes by Murray Rothbard

10 Facts quotes by Murray Rothbard

Murray Rothbard’s facts are brief yet pointed, reflecting his analytical edge. Across ten short entries he offers clear, incisive remarks that serve as a compact toolkit for anyone wanting a sharper view of reality.

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Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other…

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It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns…

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[Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can…

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

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I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and…

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After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I…

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Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is…

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

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

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The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the…

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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…

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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…

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Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.

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To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as…

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Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

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Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

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We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that…

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

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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,…

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The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.

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Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the…

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The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.

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Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and need never…

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Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom…

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The underconsumptionist of 1819 believed that consumption would be stimulated by tariffs, while the underconsumptionist of a later day urged monetary expansion as the…

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