The 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 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 RothbardThe great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
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 RothbardIn short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain, and still worse losers are the people (e.g., those on fixed incomes such as annuities, interest, or pensions) who never receive the new money.
Murray Rothbard