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Murray N. Rothbard Quotes

Straussians take a few what they call “great thinkers,” I’m going to criticize that too, the concept of taking only great thinkers, they take a few great thinkers, more or less arbitrarily selected—how do they know they’re great thinkers? Well, everybody says they’re great. Machiavelli, Aristotle, Dewey, whatever. Hobbes. Then they say, “Since this guy is a great figure, he must’ve been consistent. Why does he have to be consistent? Well, he’s a great thinker? Who am I, a schnook professor, to challenge the greatness of this guy?” The assumption is this guy’s a great figure. He’s consistent. Most of these guys are very inconsistent, they contradict themselves on every page. Keynes did this all the time. It looks as if he contradicted himself, but he couldn’t because he’s a great thinker, and therefore consistent.

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