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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
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
— Murray Rothbard
The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.
— Murray Rothbard
All action is an attempt to exchange a less satisfactory state of affairs for a more satisfactory one.
— 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
The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.
— Murray Rothbard
Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.
— Murray Rothbard
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
— Murray Rothbard
All government wars are unjust.
— Murray Rothbard
Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.
— 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
Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.
— Murray Rothbard
Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.
— Murray Rothbard
Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.
— Murray Rothbard
Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.
— Murray Rothbard
Every once in awhile the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work of the intellect.
— Murray N. Rothbard
The 'boom-bust' cycle is generated by monetary intervention in the market, specifically bank credit expansion to business.
— Murray Rothbard
Commercial banks - that is, fractional reserve banks - create money out of thin air. Essentially, they do it in the same way as counterfeiters.
— Murray Rothbard
The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
— Murray Rothbard
Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.
— Murray Rothbard
The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.
— Murray Rothbard
Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.
— Murray Rothbard
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.
— Murray Rothbard
Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.
— Murray Rothbard
The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection
— Murray N. Rothbard
Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.
— Murray Rothbard
To be moral, an act must be free.
— Murray N. Rothbard
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.
— Murray Rothbard
The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness
— Murray Rothbard
I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.
— Murray Rothbard
War is Mass Murder, Conscription is Slavery, Taxation is Robbery.
— Murray N. Rothbard
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
— 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
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
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property;
— Murray N. Rothbard
No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.
— Murray N. 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 natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.
— Murray Rothbard
The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.
— Murray Rothbard
It is evident that the State needs the intellectuals; it is not so evident why intellectuals need the State.
— 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
Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.
— 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
Praxeology - economics - provides no ultimate ethical judgments: it simply furnishes the indispensable data necessary to make such judgments.
— Murray 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
Exchange is the lifeblood, not only of our economy, but of civilization itself.
— Murray N. Rothbard
There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian
— Murray N. Rothbard
You don't need a treaty to have free trade.
— Murray Rothbard
The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.
— Murray Rothbard
