Anarchy Quote by Murray N. Rothbard

“The fact is that libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only a political…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“It is not so evident why intellectuals need the State. Put simply, we may state that the intellectual’s livelihood in the free market is…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Passports were originally created to provide safe conduct in time of war. During most of the eighteenth century it seldom occurred to Europeans to…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Legal and political theory have committed much mischief by failing to pinpoint physical invasion as the only human action that should be illegal and…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“So identified has the State become in the public mind with the provision of these services that an attack on State financing appears to…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Dutt effectively concluded with a quote from an editor of the highly respected Current History Magazine: The new America [the editor had written in…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a “social contract”;…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also “voluntary” on the…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“In this century, the human race faces, once again, the virulent reign of the State—of the State now armed with the fruits of man’s…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes…

— Murray N. Rothbard