The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these… — 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… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its actions virtual Holy Writ for the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
What is so terrible about transaction costs? On what basis are they considered the ultimate evil, so that their minimization must override… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The important desideratum is freedom of the market; a country or region will often best develop, depending on conditions of resources or… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
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 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
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
All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The State lives by its very existence on the two-fold and pervasive employment of aggressive violence against the very liberty and property… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress. — 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
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom… — 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
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
We have gotten to the point where everything the government does is counterproductive; the conclusion, of course, is that the government should… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — 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
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
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/60b/murray-rothbard-1563_antisocial_instead-of-a-bumbling-and-inefficient-to_3059596.jpg)
