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War and Peace
| Quote | Source | Page | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| All the materials needed for the conduct of a war must be provided by restriction of civilian consumption, by using up a part of the capital available and by working harder. The whole burden of warring falls upon the living generation. | Human Action | p. 228; p. 227 | War and Peace |
| At the breakfast table of every citizen sits in wartime an invisible guest, as it were, a G.I. who shares the meal. In the citizens garage stays not only the family car but besides — invisibly — a tank or a plane. The important fact is that this G.I. needs more in food, clothing, and other things than he used to consume as a civilian and that military equipment wears out much quicker than civilian equipment. The costs of a modern war are enormous. | Defense, Controls, and Inflation | p. 331 | War and Peace |
| But what is needed for a satisfactory solution of the burning problem of international relations is neither a new office with more committees, secretaries, commissioners, reports, and regulations, nor a new body of armed executioners, but the radical overthrow of mentalities and domestic policies which must result in conflict. | Omnipotent Government | p. 6 | War and Peace |
| Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 152 | War and Peace |
| Full freedom of movement of persons and goods, the most comprehensive protection of the property and freedom of each individual, removal of all state compulsion in the school system, in short, the most exact and complete application of the ideas of 1789, are the prerequisites of peaceful conditions. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 96 | War and Peace |
| 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. | Omnipotent Government | pp. 67 | War and Peace |
| If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. | Omnipotent Government | p. 15 | War and Peace |
| If you want to abolish war, you must eliminate its causes. What is needed is to restrict government activities to the preservation of life, health, and private property, and thereby to safeguard the working of the market. Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. | Omnipotent Government | p. 138 | War and Peace |
| In the long run war and the preservation of the market economy are incompatible. Capitalism is essentially a scheme for peaceful nations. | Human Action | p. 824; p. 828 | War and Peace |
| Interventionism generates economic nationalism, and economic nationalism generates bellicosity. If men and commodities are prevented from crossing the borderlines, why should not the armies try to pave the way for them? | Human Action | p. 828; p. 832 | War and Peace |