Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Fractional reserve banks are sitting ducks and are always subject to contraction. When the banks' state of inherent bankruptcy is discovered, for… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The important desideratum is freedom of the market; a country or region will often best develop, depending on conditions of resources or… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Declines in specific industries can never ignite a general depression. Shifts in data will cause increases in activity in one field, declines… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The successful entrepreneurs on the free market will be the ones most adept at anticipating future business conditions. Yet, the forecasting can… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Play, as a consumers' good, is subject to the law of marginal utility, as are all goods, and the time spent in… — 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
