Murray Rothbard Quotes

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• The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original…
• Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in…
• All government wars are unjust.
• ...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
• The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
• The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in…
• It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
• Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through…
• The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone…
• There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.
• There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore…
• In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money…
• The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.
• It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
• The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
• You don't need a treaty to have free trade.
• The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his…
• Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states…
• Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of…
• This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them…

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