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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

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There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.
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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.
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Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don't know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or wasting them, doing the right thing or not doing the right thing.
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The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.
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