Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.
Murray RothbardThe ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.
Murray RothbardMonetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.
Murray RothbardI see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity.
Murray Rothbard