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“If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as being in a state of impermissible 'anarchy,' why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighborhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?”

—Murray Rothbard.

“A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail trade, would find few converts; but when this theory is clothed in Keynesian equations and impressive references to the “multiplier effect,” it unfortunately carries more conviction.”

—Murray Rothbard, Anatomy of the State

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“In a libertarian world, every man has equal liberty, equal rights under the libertarian law. There can be no special immunities, special licenses to commit crime. That means that police, in a libertarian society, must take their chances like anyone else; if they commit an act of invasion against someone, that someone had better turn out to deserve it, otherwise they are the criminals.”

—Murray Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty

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“Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's. The drive for equality of opportunity would also require the abolition of the family since different parents have unequal abilities; it would require the communal rearing of children. The State would have to nationalize all babies and raise them in State nurseries under 'equal' conditions. But even here conditions cannot be the same, because different State officials will themselves have different abilities and personalities. And equality can never be achieved because of necessary differences of location.”

—Murray Rothbard

“It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.”

—Murray Rothbard

“Property is Swag.”

—Murray Rothbard

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“In the broadest and longest-run sense, libertarianism will win eventually because it and only it is compatible with the nature of man and of the world. Only liberty can achieve man's prosperity, fulfillment, and happiness. In short, libertarianism will win because it is true, because it is the correct policy for mankind, and truth will eventually win out.”

—Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty

“During the 19th century the libertarian impetus continued. The Jeffersonian and Jacksonian movements, the Democratic-Republican and then the Democratic Parties, explicitly strived for the virtual elimination of government from American life. It was to be a government without a standing army or navy, a government without debt, and with no direct federal or excise taxes, and virtually no import tariffs--that is with negligible levels of taxation and expenditure--a government that does not engage in public works or internal improvements, a government that does not control or regulate, a government that leaves money and banking free, hard, and uninflated. In short, in the words of H.L. Mencken's ideal, 'a government that barely escapes being no government at all'.”

—Murray Rothbard, The Libertarian Heritage: The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism, For a New Liberty, Chapter 1

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