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Murray Rothbard Inspirational Quotes (65)

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Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad.
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Subjectivism is not an absolute principle it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.
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To those advocates of independent paper moneys who also champion the free market, I would address this simple question: Why don't you advocate the unlimited freedom of each individual to manufacture dollars? If dollars are really and properly things-in-themselves, why not let everyone manufacture them as they manufacture wheat and baby food?
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The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
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The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.
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The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.
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We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public we strive to see all of these groups united, hand-in-hand, in opposition to the plundering and privileged minority that constitutes the rulers of the State.
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The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.
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Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We want schmoes in government. We want people who can't find the doorknob. Why waste productive people, as well as looting the taxpayer?
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The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.
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The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.
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The natural tendency of the state is inflation.
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All government wars are unjust.
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Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.
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States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
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...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
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Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.
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It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing the plain fact: that gold, that scarce and valuable market-produced metal, has always been, and will continue to be, by far the best money for human society.
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Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist .
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All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.
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John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
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Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.
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The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection
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The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately.
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