The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies … - Murray Rothbard

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Once we start worrying too often or too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency. I suggest if that day ever comes, then the press has had it.

Murray Rothbard

The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.

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There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation. ' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft. '

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The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

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It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

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The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

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The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

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