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
The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing… — 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
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
One of the most important features of our economic resources is their scarcity: land, labor, and capital goods factors are all scarce,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
To those advocates of independent paper moneys who also champion the free market, I would address this simple question: "Why don't you… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
As Ludwig von Mises conclusively demonstrated in 1912, money does not and cannot originate by order of the State or by some… — 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
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The picture of the free market is necessarily one of harmony and mutual benefit; the picture of State intervention is one of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The successful entrepreneurs on the free market will be the ones most adept at anticipating future business conditions. Yet, the forecasting can… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Famine emerges from a lack of interlocal trade; when one locality's food crop fails, since there is virtually no trade with other… — 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 Image
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 Image
Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
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 Image
Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology. — 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 position, that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
