Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.
Murray RothbardGold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.
Murray RothbardThe costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately.
Murray RothbardThe State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
Murray RothbardThe State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
Murray RothbardAt 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."
Murray Rothbard