Ludwig von Mises

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

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

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.

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

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

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

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

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

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

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

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