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.
Murray RothbardThe fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness
Murray RothbardPlacing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.
Murray RothbardRule by the statist elite is not benign or simply a matter of who happens to be in office: it is rule by a growing army of leeches and parasites battening off the income and wealth of hard-working Americans, destroying their property, corrupting their customs and institutions, sneering at their religion.
Murray RothbardI define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.
Murray RothbardAll of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of the rights of person and property-can be and have been supplied far more efficiently and certainly more morally by private persons. The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary.
Murray Rothbard