Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.
Murray RothbardThe State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
Murray RothbardIf we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.
Murray RothbardThe more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.
Murray RothbardThe more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.
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