Notable Quote

"The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his freedom to use or not use his reason about any given subject. He also discovers the natural fact of his mind's command over his body and its actions: that is, of his natural ownership over his self."

Rothbard, Murray event 1982

From The Ethics of Liberty

Context: From The Ethics of Liberty (1982). Rothbard grounds the principle of self-ownership, the foundation of his natural-rights libertarianism, in the introspective fact that each person's mind directly commands their own body and actions.