"The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency."
Rothbard Quotes
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Murray Rothbard quotes
"The State’s power to control prices and wages is the power to distort economic signals."
"It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling."
"In order to conquer the world of economics with his new theory, it was critical for Keynes to destroy his rivals within Cambridge itself."
"The State’s power rests on its ability to convince the public that its actions are legitimate."
"The State, by its very nature, must violate the generally accepted moral laws to which most people adhere."
"The free market punishes irresponsibility and rewards those who act responsibly."
"The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property."
"The State’s claim to protect workers is a pretext for limiting their freedom to negotiate."
"The free market is the only system that can provide true social justice, as it respects individual choices."
"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."
"Keynesian economics was beautifully tailored to be the intellectual armor for the modern Welfare-Warfare State."
"The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal."
"The State’s claim to promote fairness is a pretext for creating new injustices."
"To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as the judge of a possible and real condition."
"It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization."
"In other words, 'greed' simply means that you are trying to relieve the nature given scarcity that man was born with."
"The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property."
"The State’s claim to provide public goods is a pretext for expanding its own power."
"I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action."