"The market economy is based on the principle that individuals know their own interests better than any central authority."
Rothbard Quotes
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Murray Rothbard quotes
"Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented."
"If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources."
"The State is an inherently illegitimate institution of organized aggression, of organized and regularized crime against the persons and properties of its subjects."
"Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented."
"The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency."
"The more the State plans, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual."
"There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom."
"The market economy is the only system that can allocate resources efficiently without force."
"The State’s claim to provide healthcare is a pretext for controlling individual choices."
"The State’s power to control prices is the power to create shortages and surpluses."
"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."
"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost."
"If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will."
"Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector."
"There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'"
"The free market is the only system that can foster creativity without political constraints."
"Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place."
"The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a ‘money illusion’ among workers."
"War is murder, conscription is slavery, taxation is robbery."