Austrian - Economist | September 29, 1881 - October 10, 1973
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Ludwig von Mises
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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.
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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
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Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
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A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
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Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
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The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
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Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
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