Llewellyn Rockwell

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair.…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most.…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Even as the government dominates the headlines, private entrepreneurs are busy every day working to improve products and services that improve our…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor.…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It…

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The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government… An armed society is…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Americans are coming to their senses, and the libertarian theory of society and government is pointing the way. The times change, but…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence…

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Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is…

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Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a…

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To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It…

— Llewellyn Rockwell