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The Ethics of Liberty QUOTES

The Ethics of Liberty QUOTES

1 " If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang. "

― Murray N. Rothbard , The Ethics of Liberty

2 " In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land ("the public domain"), streets and highways, rivers and coastal waters, and the means of delivering mail...the State relies on control of the levers of propaganda to persuade its subjects to obey or even exalt their rulers. "

― Murray N. Rothbard , The Ethics of Liberty

3 " it is surely grotesque to entrust the function of guardian of the public morality to the most extensive criminal (and hence the most immoral) group in society—the State. "

― Murray N. Rothbard , The Ethics of Liberty

4 " What particularly needs to be done is to enlighten the public on the State’s true nature, so that they can see that the State habitually violates the generally accepted injunctions against robbery and murder, that the State is the necessary violator of the commonly accepted moral and criminal law. "

― Murray N. Rothbard , The Ethics of Liberty