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All government wars are unjust.
You don't need a treaty to have free trade.
Government is a gang of thieves writ large.
The natural tendency of the state is inflation.
Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.
There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.
Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.
Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.
Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.
The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.
Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.
True # anarchism will be # capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.
The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.
The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection
The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.
The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.
The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.
All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.
All action is an attempt to exchange a less satisfactory state of affairs for a more satisfactory one.
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.
Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.
Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.
The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.
What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.
Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.
The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.
Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.
The 'boom-bust' cycle is generated by monetary intervention in the market, specifically bank credit expansion to business.
The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.
Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.
Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.
The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.
The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.