“The politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from servic…” — Murray Rothbard

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

The underconsumptionist of 1819 believed that consumption would be stimulated by tariffs, while the underconsumptionist of a later day urged monetary expansion as the remedy. On the other hand, the remedy proposed for the shortage of money capital was monetary inflation in 1819, encouragement of savings and thrift in the 1930s.