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> [“For while libertarians have too often been opportunists who lose sight of or under-cut their ultimate goal, some have erred in the opposite direction: fearing and condemning any advances toward the idea as necessarily selling out the goal itself. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/for-while-libertarians-have-too-often-been-opportunists-who-lose/)

[Murray N. Rothbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-n-rothbard/)

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## Other authors on Opportunist

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## More by Murray N. Rothbard

> [“The fact is that libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only a political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/the-fact-is-that-libertarianism-is-not-and-does-not-pretend-to-be-a/)

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> [“For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/for-this-essential-acceptance-the-majority-must-be-persuaded-by/)

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> [“It is not so evident why intellectuals need the State. Put simply, we may state that the intellectual’s livelihood in the free market is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/it-is-not-so-evident-why-intellectuals-need-the-state-put-simply-we/)

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> [“Passports were originally created to provide safe conduct in time of war. During most of the eighteenth century it seldom occurred to Europeans to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/passports-were-originally-created-to-provide-safe-conduct-in-time-of/)

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> [“Legal and political theory have committed much mischief by failing to pinpoint physical invasion as the only human action that should be illegal and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/legal-and-political-theory-have-committed-much-mischief-by-failing-to/)

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> [“So identified has the State become in the public mind with the provision of these services that an attack on State financing appears to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/so-identified-has-the-state-become-in-the-public-mind-with-the/)

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> [“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/the-state-obtains-its-revenue-by-coercion-by-threatening-dire/)

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> [“Dutt effectively concluded with a quote from an editor of the highly respected Current History Magazine: The new America \[the editor had written in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/dutt-effectively-concluded-with-a-quote-from-an-editor-of-the-highly/)

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> [“Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a “social contract”;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/since-production-must-always-precede-predation-the-free-market-is/)

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> [“If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also “voluntary” on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/if-we-are-the-government-then-anything-a-government-does-to-an/)

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> [“In this century, the human race faces, once again, the virulent reign of the State—of the State now armed with the fruits of man’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/in-this-century-the-human-race-faces-once-again-the-virulent-reign-of/)

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> [“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/we-may-test-the-hypothesis-that-the-state-is-largely-interested-in/)

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> [“Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/whenever-the-legislators-endeavour-to-take-away-and-destroy-the/)

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> [“For while libertarians have too often been opportunists who lose sight of or under-cut their ultimate goal, some have erred in the opposite direction:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/for-while-libertarians-have-too-often-been-opportunists-who-lose/)

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> [“To be moral, an act must be free.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-n-rothbard/to-be-moral-an-act-must-be-free/)

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