“Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a… — Murray N. Rothbard Free market Copy Share Image
“It is not so evident why intellectuals need the State. Put simply, we may state that the intellectual’s livelihood in the free… — Murray N. Rothbard Free market Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence… — Murray N. Rothbard Crime Copy Share Image
“Passports were originally created to provide safe conduct in time of war. During most of the eighteenth century it seldom occurred to… — Murray N. Rothbard Foreign country Copy Share Image
“In short, and this is a highly important point to grasp, the depression is the “recovery” process, and the end of the… — Murray N. Rothbard Depression Copy Share Image
“Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary… — Murray N. Rothbard Locke Copy Share Image
“For while libertarians have too often been opportunists who lose sight of or under-cut their ultimate goal, some have erred in the… — Murray N. Rothbard Advancement Copy Share Image
“There is no gainsaying the fact that this suggested program will strike most people as impossibly “radical” and “unrealistic”; any suggestion for… — Murray N. Rothbard Change Copy Share Image
“True agent or “representative” is always subject to that individual’s orders, can be dismissed at any time and cannot act contrary to… — Murray N. Rothbard Representative Copy Share Image
“For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and… — Murray N. Rothbard Ideology Copy Share Image
“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as… — Murray N. Rothbard Anarcho-capitalism Copy Share Image
“Dutt effectively concluded with a quote from an editor of the highly respected Current History Magazine: The new America [the editor had… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also “voluntary”… — Murray N. Rothbard Politics Copy Share Image
“So identified has the State become in the public mind with the provision of these services that an attack on State financing… — Murray N. Rothbard Business Copy Share Image
“Not content with the liberal creed of equality of rights, of equality before the law, the socialist State would trample on such… — Murray N. Rothbard Equality Copy Share Image
“In this century, the human race faces, once again, the virulent reign of the State—of the State now armed with the fruits… — Murray N. Rothbard Human race Copy Share Image
“The fact is that libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only… — Murray N. Rothbard Libertarianism Copy Share Image
“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category… — Murray N. Rothbard Crime Copy Share Image
“Legal and political theory have committed much mischief by failing to pinpoint physical invasion as the only human action that should be… — Murray N. Rothbard Agression Copy Share Image
“The average man, whatever his errors otherwise, at least sees clearly that government is something lying outside him and outside the generality… — Murray N. Rothbard Politics Copy Share Image
“No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.” — Murray N. Rothbard Freedom Copy Share Image
“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making,… — Murray N. Rothbard Anarcho-capitalism Copy Share Image
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could… — Murray N. Rothbard Anarchy 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… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“And, indeed, what is the State anyway but organized banditry? What is taxation but theft on a gigantic, unchecked, scale? What is… — Murray N. Rothbard Police force Copy Share Image
“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category… — Murray N. Rothbard Crime Copy Share Image
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State… — Murray N. Rothbard Anarcho-capitalism Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's"… — Murray N. Rothbard Anarcho-capitalism Copy Share Image
“It’s true: greed has had a very bad press. I frankly don’t see anything wrong with greed. I think that the people… — Murray N. Rothbard Capitalism Copy Share Image
“I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty, and that the democratic form… — Murray N. Rothbard Evil government Copy Share Image
“The normative principle I am suggesting for the law is simply this: No action should be considered illicit or illegal unless it… — Murray N. Rothbard Agression Copy Share Image
“All sorts of people are for it. Numerous senators and representatives—of the Right and Left—have expressed their purpose to establish universal military… — Murray N. Rothbard American government Copy Share Image
“if consumer demand should increase for the goods or services of any private business, the private firm is delighted; it woos and… — Murray N. Rothbard Business Copy Share Image
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