"Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the……" — Murray Rothbard
"Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown."
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95 Quotes by Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard has 95 quotes on this site.
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The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to…
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Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics,…
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All government wars are unjust.
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...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in…
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The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better…
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It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
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Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for…
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The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and…
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There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.
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There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of…
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In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of…
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More Aggressor Quotes
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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights.…
— Ronald Reagan
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity;…
— Thomas Aquinas
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war…
— Harold Lasswell
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Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.
— Saddam Hussein
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars…
— Howard Zinn
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I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that,…
— Dominic Monaghan
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world.…
— Mark Twain
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While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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