[Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its… — 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
If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we… — 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
We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one’s… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by… — 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
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