"War is murder, conscription is slavery, taxation is robbery."
Rothbard Quotes
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Murray Rothbard quotes
"The State’s power to subsidize is the power to distort the market and reward inefficiency."
"John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father."
"No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen."
"The State’s power to define money is the power to distort the entire economic system."
"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."
"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 Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a ‘money illusion’ among workers."
"The State’s claim to a monopoly on defense is a claim to a monopoly on aggression."
"The free market is the most efficient allocator of resources."
"The market economy is the only system that has ever lifted man out of the morass of poverty and given him the leisure to develop his faculties."
"We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public."
"Gorbachev’s stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union."
"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."
"Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and abroad. Therefore, they have a vested interest in promoting deficits."
"Private philanthropy is the direct expression of the great Christian principle of the brotherhood of man and the Golden Rule."
"The free market is the only system that can ensure individual dignity through voluntary action."
"The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property."
"The free market rewards those who serve others most effectively."
"Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local."