Leading the boom of 1838 were state governments, who, finding themselves with the unexpected windfall of a distributed surplus from the federal… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy… — 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
We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We have gotten to the point where everything the government does is counterproductive; the conclusion, of course, is that the government should… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and abroad. Therefore, they have a vested interest… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The avoidance of explicit ethical judgments leads political scientists to one overriding implicit value judgment - that in favor of the political… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it… — 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
The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through… — 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 natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In the market, the fittest are those most able to serve the consumers; in government, the fittest are those most adept at… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way. — 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
