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

Quote by Ludwig Von Mises

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist...

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Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners,...

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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few...

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Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic...

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The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance...

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Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment,...

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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and...

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What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds...

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks....

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks....

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A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each...

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be...

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be...

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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy...