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

- Murray Rothbard

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’…

- Murray Rothbard

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

- Murray Rothbard

We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we strive to see…

- Murray Rothbard

Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Ca…

- Murray Rothbard

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he wh…

- Murray Rothbard

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have di…

- Murray Rothbard

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, th…

- Murray Rothbard

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

- Murray Rothbard