"Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local."
Rothbard Quotes
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Murray Rothbard quotes
"The State’s interventions in the economy always favor the few at the expense of the many."
"The free market is the only system that can ensure long-term prosperity without force."
"The free market is the only system that can provide goods and services without political interference."
"The market economy is the only system that can provide true equality of opportunity."
"Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves at the top of a new hierarchy of power."
"The free market is the only system that can generate wealth without coercion."
"The idea of a strictly limited constitutional State was a noble experiment that failed, even under the most favorable and propitious circumstances."
"The State’s claim to provide security is a pretext for expanding its control over society."
"Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet."
"The State’s claim to provide security is a pretext for expanding its control over society."
"The market economy is the only system that can provide stability without manipulation."
"The State’s power to enforce contracts is often a pretext for imposing its own terms."
"It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright."
"The concept of a purely free market is a construct of the human mind, a tool for understanding reality, not a description of any actual economy."
"If man acquires rights over things, it is because he is at once active, intelligent and free; by his activity he spreads over external nature; by his intelligence he governs it, and bends it to his use."
"The concept of a purely free market is a construct of the human mind, a tool for understanding reality, not a description of any actual economy."
"The free market is the only system that can coordinate the actions of millions without coercion."
"The State’s claim to represent the will of the people is a myth perpetuated to maintain its power."
"Hoover had prevented 'an immediate attack upon wages as a basis of maintaining profits,' but the result of wiping out profits and maintaining artificial wage rates was chronic, unprecedented depression."