"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."
Rothbard Quotes
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Murray Rothbard quotes
"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."
"The free market is the only system that can ensure peace through mutual benefit."
"War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system."
"The State’s claim to protect property is ironic, given that it is the primary violator of property rights."
"The market economy is the only system that can provide opportunities for all without discrimination."
"In short, there can be no monopoly or monopoly price on the free market."
"The State’s power to regulate is the power to control."
"I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual."
"Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place."
"The dollar was defined as 1/20 of a gold ounce, and the pound sterling was, at that time, defined as the name for 1/4 of a gold ounce, simply traded for 5/20 of a gold ounce."
"The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property."
"The State is the organization of robbery systematized and writ large."
"The State’s openly assigned priority to its own defense against the public strikes few people as inconsistent with its presumed raison d’etre."
"A war between rulers was converted into a war between peoples, with each people coming to the defense of its rulers in the erroneous belief that the rulers were defending them."
"War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system."