"The State’s power to nationalize industries is the power to destroy productivity and innovation."
Rothbard Quotes
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Murray Rothbard quotes
"The State’s claim to provide public goods is a pretext for expanding its own power."
"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."
"The important desideratum is freedom of the market; a country or region will often best develop, depending on conditions of resources or the market, by concentrating on one or two items and then exchanging them for other items produced elsewhere."
"The free market is the only system that can generate wealth without coercion."
"The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb."
"Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result."
"The free market is the only system that can deliver healthcare efficiently without force."
"The State is a gang of thieves writ large."
"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."