Tied up with his dismissal of natural law is Hayek's continuous, and all-pervasive, attack on reason. Reason is his bete noire, and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of… — 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
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Economics has revealed a great truth about the natural law of human interaction: that not only is production essential to man's prosperity… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly 'radical' ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In order to continue in office, any government (not simply a 'democratic' government) must have the support of the majority of its… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Play, as a consumers' good, is subject to the law of marginal utility, as are all goods, and the time spent in… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result. — 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
