If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by… — 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
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
