Murray Rothbard States Quotations

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new money, and if in each country its governmental "Central Bank" (in the United States, the Federal Reserve) is the sole monopoly source and creator of all money, who then is responsible for the blight of inflation? Who except the very institution that is solely empowered to create money, that is, the Fed (and the Bank of England, and the Bank of Italy, and other central banks) itself?

The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist .

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

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable