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Top Murray Rothbard Quotes

Browse top 11 most favorite famous quotes and sayings by Murray Rothbard.

Favorite Murray Rothbard Quotes

1. "It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist." ~ Murray Rothbard
2. "It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society." ~ Murray Rothbard
3. "Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown." ~ Murray Rothbard
4. "There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian." ~ Murray Rothbard
5. "Briefly, the State is that organizationin society which attempts to maintain amonopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the onlyorganization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment forservices rendered but by coercion." ~ Murray Rothbard
6. "If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place." ~ Murray Rothbard
7. "The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it." ~ Murray Rothbard
8. "All government wars are unjust." ~ Murray Rothbard
9. "Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology." ~ Murray Rothbard
10. "After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything." ~ Murray Rothbard
11. "Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production." ~ Murray Rothbard

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