Quote

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

Llewellyn Rockwell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Llewellyn Rockwell
States
Poses
Always
Solve
Threat
Greater
State
Whatever
Society
Problem
Purports

More quotes by Llewellyn Rockwell

Image
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
Image
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
Image
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.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Image
There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Image
The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Image
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Image
Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Image
What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Image
Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Image
What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Image
Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.
Llewellyn Rockwell
Image
The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow to world prosperity that ended up in a war that killed countless millions. It was one of the greatest acts of wreckage in world history.
Llewellyn Rockwell