Way Quotes by Murray Rothbard

9 Way quotes by Murray Rothbard

Rothbard’s libertarian insight appears in this small set of nine quotes, providing a quick sense of his perspective on the Way.

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What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

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The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

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Commercial banks - that is, fractional reserve banks - create money out of thin air. Essentially, they do it in the same…

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Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going…

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This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers,…

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Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance…

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Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm.…

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This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic."…

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In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its…

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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…

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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…

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Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.

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To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as…

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Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

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Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

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We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that…

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John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.

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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,…

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The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.

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The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.

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Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and need never…

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Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom…

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The underconsumptionist of 1819 believed that consumption would be stimulated by tariffs, while the underconsumptionist of a later day urged monetary expansion as the…

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