Quote

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

Murray Rothbard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Murray Rothbard
Age: 68 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 2
Died: 1995
Died: January 7
Activist
Economist
Essayist
Historian
Philosopher
Professor
University Teacher
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Murray Newton Rothbard
Murray N. Rothbard
Unlike
Institutions
Society
Government
Obtains
Persons
Coercion
Person
Taxation
Every
Revenue
Institution

More quotes by Murray Rothbard

Image
All government wars are unjust.
Murray Rothbard
Image
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
Murray Rothbard
Image
You don't need a treaty to have free trade.
Murray Rothbard
Image
The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.
Murray Rothbard
Image
[Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can impose rationing they can impose priorities, and tell everyone how much of what kind of medical care they can have. And besides, ... there's that deeply satisfying rush of power.
Murray Rothbard
Image
The natural tendency of the state is inflation.
Murray Rothbard
Image
Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism.
Murray Rothbard
Image
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.
Murray Rothbard
Image
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 .
Murray Rothbard
Image
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
Murray Rothbard
Image
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?
Murray Rothbard
Image
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
Murray Rothbard
Image
The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.
Murray Rothbard
Image
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.
Murray Rothbard
Image
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.
Murray Rothbard
Image
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
Murray Rothbard
Image
Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.
Murray Rothbard
Image
The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.
Murray Rothbard
Image
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization men are born free, and need never be in chains. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization.
Murray Rothbard
Image
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
Murray Rothbard