“And, indeed, what is the State anyway but organized banditry? What is taxation but theft on a gigantic, unchecked, scale? What is war but mass murder on a scale impossible by private police forces? What is conscription but mass enslavement?… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The fact is that libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only a political… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“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… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Passports were originally created to provide safe conduct in time of war. During most of the eighteenth century it seldom occurred to Europeans to… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Legal and political theory have committed much mischief by failing to pinpoint physical invasion as the only human action that should be illegal and… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“So identified has the State become in the public mind with the provision of these services that an attack on State financing appears to… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Dutt effectively concluded with a quote from an editor of the highly respected Current History Magazine: The new America [the editor had written in… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a “social contract”;… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also “voluntary” on the… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“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… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
![“Dutt effectively concluded with a quote from an editor of the highly respected Current History Magazine: The new America [the editor had written in mid-1933] will not be capitalist in the old sense, nor will it be socialist. If at the moment the trend is towards fascism, it will be an American…” quote by Murray N. Rothbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e6b/murray-n-rothbard-18059_quote_dutt-effectively-concluded-with-a-quote_740559.jpg)
