On the market, all is harmony. But as soon as intervention appears and is established, conflict is created, for each may participate… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In the United States, after World War II, it took about two decades for the message to slowly seep in that inflation… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The picture of the free market is necessarily one of harmony and mutual benefit; the picture of State intervention is one of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal… — 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
