“More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation... — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents… A lasting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Peace builds, war destroys. Nations are fundamentally peaceful because they recognize the predominant utility of peace. They accept war only in self-defence;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
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