Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.

The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection

The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.

The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.