227 Quotes by murray rothbard

Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.

Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad.

The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.

Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.

Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.

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 .