John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man… — 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
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
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
Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is… — 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 man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says,… — 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
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
