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All Quotes by author - Ludwig von Mises

" A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. "

" Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. "

" Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. "

" If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. "

" If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. "

" If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. "

" Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. "

" Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. "

" Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being. "

" Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. "

" Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. "

" Peace and not war is the father of all things. "

" Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. "

" Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. "

" The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. "

" The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. "

" The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. "

" The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. "

" The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. "

" To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. "

" War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods. "

" War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. "

" War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. "

" Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. "

" Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. "

" Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. "

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