Justifications, rationalizations, for butchery and mass murder have been served up by every State and cheerfully adopted by the over whelming majority of their citizens.
Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D., Left and Right, p. 449
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It was Stalin who had invaded six western neighbors between 1939 and 1941, alarming the Germans and other neighbors who were afraid of being devoured next. The Soviet invasions of Finland and Romania had backfired spectacularly, as these countries were now fighting alongside the German Wehrmacht to redeem their honor and regain their lost territory.
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The only means to raise wage rates permanently for all those eager to earn wages is to raise the productivity of labor by increasing the per-head quota of capital invested and improving the methods of production.
The better the tools are which the worker uses in his job, the more he can perform in an hour, the higher is, consequently, his remuneration.
The height of wage rates is determined by the consumers’ appraisal of the value the worker’s labor adds to the value of the article available for sale.
Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom, p. 6, 151, 190
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Ideology has always been vital to the continued existence of the State, as attested by the systematic use of ideology since the ancient Oriental empires. The specific content of the ideology has, of course, changed over time, in accordance with changing conditions and cultures. In the Oriental despotisms, the Emperor was often held by the Church to be himself divine; in our more secular age, the argument runs more to “the public good” and the “general welfare.” But the purpose is always the same: to convince the public that what the State does is not, as one might think, crime on a gigantic scale, but something necessary and vital that must be sup- ported and obeyed. Th e reason that ideology is so vital to the State is that it always rests, in essence, on the support of the majority of the public.
Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D.
Ethics of Liberty, pp. 168–69
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Economics has revealed a great truth about the natural law of human interaction: that not only is production essential to man’s
prosperity and survival, but so also is exchange….
If anyone wishes to grasp how much we owe to the processes of exchange, let him consider what would happen in the modern world if every man were suddenly prohibited from exchanging anything with anyone else. Each person would be forced to produce all of his own goods and services himself. Th e utter chaos, the total starvation of the great bulk of the human race, and the reversion to primitive subsistence by the remaining handful of people, can readily be imagined.Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D.
Ethics of Liberty, p. 35
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… I see the central conflict as not between classes, (social or economic), or between ideologies, but between Power and Liberty, State and Society. … It is only through and by state action that “class” conflict can arise.
Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D.
Conceived in Liberty v. 1, p. 10; p. xvi
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… the Constitution has proved to be an instrument for ratifying the expansion of State power rather than the opposite. … any written limits that leave it to government to interpret its own powers are bound to be interpreted as sanctions for expanding and not binding those powers. In a profound sense, the idea of binding down power with the chains of a written constitution has proved to
be a noble experiment that failed.…The libertarian system would meet this problem by scrapping the entire notion of creating a government — an institution with a coercive monopoly of force over a given territory — and then hoping to fi nd ways to keep that government from expanding. The libertarian alternative is to abstain from such a monopoly government to begin with.
Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D.
For a New Liberty, p. 84
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… the whole point of politics is to “divide” people, to separate people by principle and ideology and to have them slug it out, each trying to gain a majority support of the population.
Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D.
Irrepressible Rothbard, p. 289
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