The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.
Murray RothbardThe state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.
Murray RothbardAll government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.
Murray RothbardI define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.
Murray Rothbard