Quotes by : Murray N. Rothbard

The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming.....

If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. If individual men, like ants, were....

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.....

The first people to get the new money are the counterfeiters, which they use to buy various goods and....

Another potent ideological force is to deprecate the individual and exalt the collectivity of society.....

Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged....

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

It’s true: greed has had a very bad press. I frankly don’t see anything wrong with greed. I think....

There is no gainsaying the fact that this suggested program will strike most people as impossibly “radical”....

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.