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Government is a gang of thieves writ large.
— 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.
— Murray Rothbard
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.
— Murray Rothbard
The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.
— Murray N. Rothbard
The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.
— Murray Rothbard
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
— Murray Rothbard
Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.
— Murray Rothbard
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.
— Murray N. Rothbard
The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.
— Murray Rothbard
All government wars are unjust.
— Murray Rothbard
What ... can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.
— Murray Rothbard
Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.
— Murray Rothbard
It is evident that the State needs the intellectuals; it is not so evident why intellectuals need the State.
— Murray N. Rothbard
There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian
— Murray N. Rothbard
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
— Murray Rothbard
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.
— Murray Rothbard
The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.
— Murray Rothbard
Praxeology - economics - provides no ultimate ethical judgments: it simply furnishes the indispensable data necessary to make such judgments.
— Murray Rothbard
Exchange is the lifeblood, not only of our economy, but of civilization itself.
— Murray N. Rothbard
The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.
— Murray Rothbard
The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.
— Murray Rothbard
The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.
— Murray Rothbard
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property;
— Murray N. Rothbard
While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.
— Murray Rothbard
All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.
— Murray Rothbard
No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.
— Murray Rothbard
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
— Murray N. Rothbard
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.
— Murray N. Rothbard