58 Quotes About Nap
- Author Steven Magee
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Hello dreams, goodbye world.
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- Author Murray N. Rothbard
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If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang.
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- Author Murray N. Rothbard
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In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land ("the public domain"), streets and highways, rivers and coastal waters, and the means of delivering mail...the State relies on control of the levers of propaganda to persuade its subjects to obey or even exalt their rulers.
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- Author Robert Higgs
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The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so doing, it reveals the fraud at the heart of its impudent claims and gives sufficient proof that it is not a genuine protector, but a mere protection racket.
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- Author Wendy McElroy
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No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Growing economies are built by billions of actors behaving according to their own interests, coordinated through institutions that no one in particular created.Realizing this requires humility, a trait that is in short supply among would-be dictators, politicians, and bureaucrats, which is precisely why these groups are the proven enemies of prosperity in all times and places.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top philosophers and not stupid people, for many thousands of years before the age of the enlightenment. It still is.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Where there is commerce there is peace.
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