QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Donald Rumsfeld, Alexander Pope, Harry Elmer Barnes, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Ernest Hemingway, Ludwig von Mises.

• Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
  ~Donald Rumsfeld
  
  
• O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
  ~Alexander Pope
  
  

• War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.
  ~Harry Elmer Barnes
  
  
• The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.
  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
  
  
• The 1st panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the 2nd is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; a permanent ruin.
  ~Ernest Hemingway
  
  
• The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• Only one thing can conquer war--that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation...
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  

 

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