Murray Rothbard on the State and Property
“The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.”
Murray Rothbard
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Capitalism and Anarchism – Quote by Murray Rothbard
“Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can’t really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism”
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard on Law and Morality
“It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.”
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard on the State and Freedom
“If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.”
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard on the State and Private Economy
“The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society – far from satisfying the wants of consumers – are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.”
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard Quote on Wealth and Taxation
“Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.”
Murray Rothbard
The Red Thread of Government – Quote by Murray Rothbard
“If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society – the areas of crisis and failure – we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity.”
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard on Life Paths and Unequal Opportunities
“Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor’s.”
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard on Minimum Wages and Unemployment
“Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers… Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker’s employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone from being hired at the wage which would pay his employer to hire him.”
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard on Liberty and Political Action
“I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and woman is simply not going to work; that strategy ignores the problem of power, the fact that millions of people have a vested interest in statism and are not likely to give it up…. Education in liberty is of course vital, but it is not enough; action must also be taken to roll back the State.”
Murray Rothbard