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The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.
Llewellyn Rockwell
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American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.
Llewellyn Rockwell
If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Let every nation, right now, do what is best for all citizens of the world: eliminate every form of intervention that would prevent or otherwise hobble mutually beneficial trade between any two parties anywhere in the world. No bureaucracy can help us toward that goal it must come from a growing realization of the merit of freedom itself.
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To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It is the normal state of politics that the more centralized it is, the more damage it does. Fast-track authority [for government-to-government trade agreements] centralizes power and is therefore part of the problem.
Llewellyn Rockwell
The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government.... An armed society is a self-governing society, just as a disarmed people are vulnerable to arbitrary power of every kind.
Llewellyn Rockwell
The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product of human creativity in an environment of freedom. The freedom to own, to make contracts, to save, to invest, to associate, and to trade: these are the key to prosperity.
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Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive banking with no central bank. That banking reform would give us a sound money system, meaning no more business cycle, bailouts, or inflation.
Llewellyn Rockwell
What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.
Llewellyn Rockwell
There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.
Llewellyn Rockwell
We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.
Llewellyn Rockwell
It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.
Llewellyn Rockwell
The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.
Llewellyn Rockwell