"The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress." - Murray Rothbard

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Rothbard was sharper on the diagnosis than the cure. "The state is the enemy" is true and also incomplete — you need somewhere to go. The exit infrastructure matters as much as the critique: money you can hold without permission, contracts that don't require courts, networks that don't route through captured institutions. The quote becomes a postmortem instead of a lament when the alternatives are real enough to walk into.