Llewellyn Rockwell Quotes

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit. Gold was the last limit. Its banishment as a standard unleashed the inflation monster and leviathan itself, which has swelled beyond comprehension.

The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It is the normal state of politics that the more centralized it is, the more damage it does. Fast-track authority [for government-to-government trade agreements] centralizes power and is therefore part of the problem.

The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.