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.
From Ludwig von Mises
War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
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.
Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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