"The State is a gang of thieves writ large."
Rothbard Quotes
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Murray Rothbard quotes
"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 most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing 'democracy' and the strong unitary nation-state: Abraham Lincoln."
"The free market is the only system that can provide goods and services without political interference."
"The free market is the only system that can provide justice without violence."
"The market economy is the only system that can foster innovation without force."
"The market economy is the only system that can respond to changing conditions without bureaucratic delay."
"Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match."
"Government intervention always makes things worse, never better."
"The market economy is the only system that can provide for diverse preferences without coercion."
"The State’s claim to regulate for safety is often a cover for restricting competition."
"The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change."
"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."
"The market economy is a dynamic process of discovery, not a static allocation of resources."
"The free market is the only system that can ensure peace through mutual benefit."
"The State’s power to conscript is the power to enslave."