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Nation, State, and Economy (1919)
Ludwig von Mises
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| Quote | Source | Page | Subject |
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| A nation that believes in itself and its future, a nation that means to stress the sure feeling that its members are bound to one another not merely by accident of birth but also by the common possession of a culture that is valuable above all to each of them, would necessarily be able to remain unperturbed when it saw individual persons shift to other nations. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 76 | Migration |
| After all, culture is wealth. Without well-being, without wealth, there never has been culture. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 74 | Culture |
| All attempts to create a substantive international law through whose application disputes among nations could be decided have miscarried. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 90 | International Law |
| All pacifism not based on a liberal economic order built on private ownership of the means of production always remains utopian. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 94 | Pacifism |
| Community of language binds and difference of language separates persons and peoples. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 13 | Language |
| Economic history is the development of the division of labor. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 134 | Division of Labor |
| Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 152 | War and Peace |
| Every conservative policy, however, is fated from the start to fail; after all, its essence is to stop something unstoppable, to resist a development that cannot be impeded. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 119 | Conservatism |
| Every reactionary lacks intellectual independence. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 119 | Conservatism |
| For fully developed imperialism, the individual no longer has value. He is valuable to it only as a member of the whole, as a soldier of an army. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 78 | Imperialism |