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From Quotes by Murray Rothbard
- The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
- Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help…
- Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from…
- On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount…
- I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose…
- Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.
- Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada…
- No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such…
- All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of…
- Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee…
- The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to kill,…
- Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by…
- After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from…
- Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological…
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