Murray Rothbard Quotes

I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets. I think that is not true anymore. I was a Republican at a time when I felt like there was a problem that the markets were under a lot more strain. It worried me whether or not the government played too activist a role.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

It should not be the government running the economy.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Have the government get out of the way.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve.

The Kochs, like many other hard-right conservatives, redefine "socialism" as almost any form of government which taxes citizens and regulates businesses.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

We must stand firm against the Left's nationalisation obsession.

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

The real boneheads are the libertarians.

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.