"The State’s power to control markets is the power to create inefficiencies and shortages."
Rothbard Quotes
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Murray Rothbard quotes
"The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with political ethics."
"The State’s welfare programs are not about helping the poor; they are about controlling them."
"The State’s power to impose tariffs is the power to restrict trade and harm consumers."
"The free market is the only system that can coordinate the actions of millions without coercion."
"The State’s power to create money out of thin air is a recipe for economic disaster."
"The free market is the only system that can ensure peace through mutual benefit."
"Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers."
"The market economy is the only system that can provide for human needs without sacrificing freedom."
"In his second Inaugural Address, on March 5, 1821, Monroe admitted at last to a general depression of prices, but only as a means of explaining the great decline in the federal revenue."
"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."
"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 thrives on war – unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed – expands on it, glories in it."
"The free market is the only system that can generate wealth without coercion."
"The entrepreneur is the driving force of the market economy."
"The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing 'democracy' and the strong unitary nation-state: Abraham Lincoln."
"Ethics is the one rational discipline that demands the establishment of a rational set of value judgments; political ethics is that subset applying to matters of State."
"The free market is the only system that can ensure economic growth without sacrificing individual liberty."
"At any rate, the correct version of Gresham's law is simply an application of the theory of price control causing shortages to money, with the two moneys operating side-by-side."
"In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later."