Accustomed Quote by Murray Rothbard

The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

— Murray Rothbard

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than…

— Anonymous

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates…

— Frank Chodorov

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the…

— Murray Rothbard

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“although a properly constrained government may be superior to statelessness, it doesn't follow that any government is superior to no government all. If a…

— Peter T. Leeson

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing…

— Joseph Sobran

“according to the economists, the function of the state was not merely one of ruling the nation, but also that of recasting it in…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is…

— Henry Hazlitt

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

— Frederic Bastiat

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

— Herb Asher