Llewellyn Rockwell famous quotes

05-17-2025

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.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Freedom #Law #Forever
Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Priorities #Political #Age
The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Government #Support #Would Be
Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Life #Mean #Imagination
It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles. H.L. Mencken once said that the state doesn't just want to make you obey. It tries to make you want to obey. And that's one thing the government schools do very well.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Children #Growing Up #Real
We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions...
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Champion #Needs #Libertarian
What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Ideas #Liberty #Needs
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.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Mean #Violence #Done
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.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Believe #People #Planning
Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Liberty #Subsidies
Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#People #Liberty #Profit
Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Liberty #Principles #Thieves
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Government #Liberty #Lessons
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but a conclusion drawn from a broad look at the trends of the last decade and a half, which, if we take the right steps, can continue on into the next century. What has happened around the world - nations states collapsing, markets outwitting planners, citizens rising up against government masters - can and is happening here at home.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Home #Civilization #Rising Up
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. And that's beginning to happen. More than six decades of hard work for American liberty beginning with the Old Right opposition to the Roosevelt Revolution and continuing with the Mises Institute, is beginning to bear fruit.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Hard Work #Law #Forever
Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.
-- Llewellyn Rockwell

#Democracy #Majority #Groups

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