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• It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

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  Law, Justice, Liberty

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.127, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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

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  Principles, Foxes, Moral

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• The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.

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  Jargon, Revolutionary, Theory

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• The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.

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  Mean, Desire, Needs

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.422, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's.

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  Opportunity, Equality, Men

  "Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition".

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Fall, Thinking

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.57, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker's employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone from being hired at the wage which would pay his employer to hire him.

  Murray Rothbard

  Law, Doe, Unemployment

  "For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto".

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• I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and woman is simply not going to work; that strategy ignores the problem of power, the fact that millions of people have a vested interest in statism and are not likely to give it up.... Education in liberty is of course vital, but it is not enough; action must also be taken to roll back the State.

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  Religious, Philosophical, Taken

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• I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

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  Anarchist, Individual, Possibility

  "Society Without A State". The Libertarian Forum, 1975.

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• 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.

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  Technology, Rights, Government

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• [Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can impose rationing; they can impose priorities, and tell everyone how much of what kind of medical care they can have. And besides, ... there's that deeply satisfying rush of power.

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  Priorities, Political, Mind

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• 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.

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  Blue, White, Libertarian

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.56, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.

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  Systematic, States, Producers

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.62, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

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  Government, Answers, Libertarian

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• Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.

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  Country, Money, Air

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• The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he undercuts the overriding importance of his own goals and principles. And if he himself values his own goals so lightly, how highly will others value them.

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  Goal, Principles, Libertarian

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.379, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original superficial level, without receiving guidance in study. Furthermore, the 'three Rs,' the fundamental tools, are neglected as long as possible, with the result that the child's chance to develop his mind is greatly retarded. The policy of teaching words via pictures instead of by the alphabet tends to deprive the young child of the greatest reasoning tool of all.

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  Children, Educational, Teaching

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• If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.

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  Government, Black, Trying

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.290, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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  Eggs, Golden, Rich

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• If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his human right.

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  Real, Men, Self

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.52, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle.

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  Choices, Liberty, Principles

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• 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 .

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  Expansion, Individual, States

  Murray Newton Rothbard (19??). “The Anatomy of the State”, p.42, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in order to discuss them. The Mole effect is to substitute slogans and superficial opinion for considered individual thought. And the opinion is that of the lowest common denominator of the group.

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  Children, Educational, Order

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• No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.

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  Men, Libertarian, Violence

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• Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism

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  Expression, Anarchism, Capitalism

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