What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.
Murray RothbardStates have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
Murray RothbardAll government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.
Murray RothbardThe natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.
Murray RothbardEvery man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.
Murray RothbardThe 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.
Murray Rothbard