World Currency Crisis

The world is in permanent monetary crisis, but once in a while, the crisis flares up acutely, and we noisily shift gears from one flawed monetary system to another.  We go back and forth from fixed paper rates to fluctuating rates, to some inchoate and aborted blend of the two.  Each new system, each basic change, is hailed extravagantly by economists, bankers, the financial press, politicians, and central banks, as the final and permanent solution to our persistent monetary woes.

Dr. Murray Rothbard (February 1986, The World Currency Crisis)

Yes-Men

Billionaires live in a world of yes-men. They can’t stand to be told no.

Murray Rothbard

Rothbard on Boétie

Why in the world do people consent to their own enslavement?

Murray Rothbard in his Introduction to The Politics of Obedience by Étienne de La Boétie, 1975

Genocide and Extermination of Civilians

[W]e must . . . never forget, we must put in the dock and hang higher than Haman, those who, in modern times, opened the Pandora’s Box of genocide and the extermination of civilians: Sherman, Grant, and Lincoln.

Murray Rothbard given in a 1994 speech titled “America’s Two Just Wars: 1775 and 1861"