"War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system."
Rothbard Quotes
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Murray Rothbard quotes
"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."
"The market economy is the only system that can provide true freedom of choice."
"The market economy is a dynamic process of discovery, not a static allocation of resources."
"Barnes dismissed his own past criticism of the World War II unconditional surrender policy as valid but superficial; for he had learned from General Albert C. Wedemeyer’s book that the murder of Germans and Japanese was the overriding aim of World War II."
"The State’s claim to protect workers is a pretext for limiting their freedom to negotiate."
"The State is a gang of thieves writ large."
"The State’s power to nationalize industries is the power to destroy productivity and innovation."
"The free market is not a system imposed upon society; it is the natural outcome of human action."
"The State’s power to create money out of thin air is a recipe for economic disaster."
"The State’s claim to protect consumers is a pretext for limiting their choices."
"The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called 'taxation' and use the proceeds to kill, enslave, and generally push people around."
"The market economy is a network of voluntary exchanges, not a zero-sum game."
"The market economy is the only system that can provide true economic freedom."
"I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action."
"Man is born a tabula rasa; he must learn how to choose the ends that are proper for him and the means that he must adopt to attain them."
"It is absurd to say that they will be served better by a coercive, demagogic apparatus."
"The market economy is the only system that can provide for human needs through voluntary exchange."
"We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely—those against private citizens or those against itself?"
"The State’s claim to provide public goods is a pretext for expanding its own power."