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• The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

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  Peace, War, Glory

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• Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.

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  Education, Teacher, Religious

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• All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims.

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  War, Government, Unjust

  Interview in Reason magazine, February 1973.

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• The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his freedom to use or not use his reason about any given subject. In short, the natural fact of his "free will." He also discovers the natural fact of his mind's command over his body and its actions: that is, of his natural ownership over his self.

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  Freedom, Men, Self

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.31, NYU Press

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• In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its own particular argument in his favor. For if man is such a mixture, then the best societal framework is surely one in which evil is discouraged and the good encouraged. The libertarian maintains that the existence of the State apparatus provides a ready, swift channel for the exercise of evil, since the rulers of the State are thereby legitimated and can wield compulsion in ways that no one else is permitted to do.

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  Exercise, Men, Evil

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• I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.

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  People, Gold, Coins

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• Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were fastened upon America, it is time to see precisely how the Fed, as presently constituted, carries out its systemic inflation and its control of the American monetary system.

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  Money, Blessing, America

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• Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism.

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  Winning, Liberty, Way

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• The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

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  Doe, Debt, Matter

  Murray N. Rothbard (2009). “Man, Economy, and State, Scholar's Edition”, p.1027, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.

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  Cutting, Roots, Long

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.755, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from the international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company. Nominally, Kissinger Associates (KA) is an "international consulting firm" but "consultant" covers many sins, and in KA's case, this means international political influence-peddling for its two dozen or so important corporate clients.

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  New York, Mean, Cities

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• At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power to print legal tender money. But the Fed tries its best not to print cash but rather to "print" or create demand deposits, checking deposits, out of thin air, since its demand deposits constitute the reserves on top of which the commercial banks can pyramid a multiple creation of bank deposits, or "checkbook money."

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  Money, Air, Commercial Banks

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• The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

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  Men, Liberty, Study

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.17, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity.

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  Art, Civilization, Political

  Murray Newton Rothbard, Leonard P. Liggio (1975). “"Salutary neglect": the American colonies in the first half of the 18th century”, Crown

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• Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

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  Encouragement, Money, Government

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• Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

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  Philosophy, Rights, Political

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• Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.

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  Mean, Finals, Conspiracy

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• Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.

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  Law, Principles, Example

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• 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.

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  Years, Good Times, Logic

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• Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in the Rockefeller world empire. It was Kissinger, along with David Rockefeller, who was decisive in the disastrous decision of President Carter to admit the recently toppled Shah of Iran, old friend and ally of the Rockefellers into the United States, a decision that led directly to the Iranian hostage crisis and to Carter's downfall.

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  Play, Hostage Crisis, Media

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• We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines. Furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical.

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  Opposites, Enlightenment, Groups

  "Are Libertarians 'Anarchists'?". Faith and Freedom, unpublished, mid-1950s.

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• If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy.

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  Government, Gold, Tickets

  "Taking Money Back" by Murray Rothbard, The Freeman, September-October 1995.

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• An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal with his own defense. Increase his burdens and you will crush him...This is our present posture...This suggestions I make...would...conserve American lives for American ends.

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  Crush, War, Hands

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• So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new money, and if in each country its governmental "Central Bank" (in the United States, the Federal Reserve) is the sole monopoly source and creator of all money, who then is responsible for the blight of inflation? Who except the very institution that is solely empowered to create money, that is, the Fed (and the Bank of England, and the Bank of Italy, and other central banks) itself?

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  Country, England, United States

  "The Case against the Fed". Book by Murray Rothbard, 1994.

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• The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

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  Natural, States, Tendencies

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.713, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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