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Scratch a “libertarian” these days, and you will find...a leftist.

The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it re...

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All government wars are unjust.

By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own ...

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Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians who...

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While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its action...

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The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jef...

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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in...

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The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget s...

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Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be leg...

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Murray Rothbard

Economist

Born: 1926-03-02

Died: 1995-01-07

Murray Newton Rothbard (2 March 1926 – 7 January 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School, an historian of both economic thought and American history, and a political philosopher whose writings and personal influence played a seminal role in the development of modern libertarianism. Rothbard was the founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism, a staunch advocate of natural law, and a central figure in the twentieth-century American libertarian movement.  He was the author of over twenty books on anarchist theory, history, economics, and other subjects.More