Llewellyn Rockwell Quotes
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.
Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.
If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.
Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.
There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.
It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.
The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.
Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.
American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.
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.
Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.
Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.
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.
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.
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters.
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.
What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.
Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.
What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.
The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.
Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.
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.
In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class.
No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.
Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.
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.
The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.