A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

The essence of so-called war prosperity; it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

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

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

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

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

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

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

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

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

Men are fighting...because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

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

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

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

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.

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

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

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents…. A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.