The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.
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 RothbardAll 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.
Murray RothbardThe more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.
Murray RothbardThe fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness
Murray RothbardThe libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in the great classical liberal tradition that built the United States and bestowed on us the American heritage of individual liberty, a peaceful foreign policy, minimal government, and a free-market economy.
Murray Rothbard