Quotes from Llewellyn Rockwell

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.

If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.

All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.