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• All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required…
• Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
• The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
• Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
• The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St.…
• The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
• Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
• Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
• History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting…
• War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
• Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father…
• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

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