Ludwig von mises

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

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

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.

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

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

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

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.