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.

Quote by Ludwig Von Mises

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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.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in...

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in...

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

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

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

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is...

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest...

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest...