War Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

— Ludwig von Mises

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

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

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

— Ludwig von Mises

[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

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

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

“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

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager…

— Ludwig von Mises

The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of…

— Ludwig von Mises

The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as…

— Ludwig von Mises

The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the…

— Ludwig von Mises

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be…

— Ludwig von Mises

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best…

— Ludwig von Mises

“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

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

— Ludwig von Mises

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

— Ludwig von Mises

Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

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

— Ludwig von Mises