"The free market is the only system that can ensure individual dignity through voluntary action."
Rothbard Quotes
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Murray Rothbard quotes
"The free market is a summary term for an array of exchanges that take place in society."
"The State’s regulations are not about protecting the public; they are about protecting established interests."
"In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain."
"It foresaw that World War II would transform America into a Leviathan State, into a domestic totalitarian collectivism, with suppression of civil liberties at home."
"The State’s coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by this process."
"The gold standard makes money a commodity, and how market forces create a stable economy."
"The great German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer pointed out that there are two mutually exclusive ways of acquiring wealth; one, the above way of production and exchange, he called the ‘economic means.’ The other way is simpler in that it does not require productivity; it is the way of seizure of another’s goods or services by the use of force and violence."
"The market economy is the only system that can provide true economic freedom."
"War is the health of the State."
"The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian."
"The State’s claim to provide security is a pretext for expanding its control over society."
"The free market is the only system that can provide justice without violence."
"The expansionary operations of the Second Bank of the United States, coupled with its laxity toward insisting on specie payment by the state banks, impelled a further inflationary expansion of state banks."
"Government intervention always makes things worse, never better."
"The free market is the only system that can generate wealth without coercion."
"The State’s power to license is the power to restrict freedom and innovation."
"Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result."
"The market economy is the only system that can provide opportunities for all without discrimination."
"The State’s interventions always create unintended consequences that lead to further interventions."