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

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

Ludwig von Mises
Peace, War, Government
Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Ludwig von Mises
War, Fighting, Wish

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

Ludwig von Mises
Peace, War, Government
Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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
War, Competition, Battle
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.285, VM eBooks

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

Ludwig von Mises
Peace, War, Limits

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Ludwig von Mises
Peace, Father, War
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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

Ludwig von Mises
Freedom, Philosophy, War

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

Ludwig von Mises
Peace, War, Roots

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.

Ludwig von Mises
Philosophy, War, Age

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Ludwig von Mises
Money, War, Order
Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.

Ludwig von Mises
War, Party, Government
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.480, VM eBooks

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

Ludwig von Mises
Peace, War, Liberty
Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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 of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

Ludwig von Mises
War, Father, Essence
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Ludwig von Mises
Money, War, Men
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.48, VM eBooks

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

Ludwig von Mises
Money, War, Doe

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
Peace, War, Defeat

The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression... All nations can coexist peacefully.

Ludwig von Mises
Country, War, Mean
"Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War". Book by Ludwig von Mises, July 23, 1944.

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

Ludwig von Mises
Peace, Money, War

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

Ludwig von Mises
Peace, War, House
Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.

Ludwig von Mises
War, Earthquakes, Prosperity

The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

Ludwig von Mises
War, Achievement, Peaceful
Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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

Ludwig von Mises
Peace, War, Mean
"Human Action: A Treatise on Economics".

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

Ludwig von Mises
Money, Peace, War

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Ludwig von Mises
Peace, Philosophy, War

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

Ludwig von Mises
Peace, War, Race
Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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