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
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
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
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
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
The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness — 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 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
In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who… — 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
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
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
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of… — 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
An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed. — 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 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
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
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
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair… — 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
