“At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? . . . Amazed!”
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Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of Economics throughout most of the twentieth century. He earned his doctorate in law and economics from the University of Vienna in 1906. In 1926, Mises founded the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research. From 1909 to 1934, he was an economist for the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Before the Anschluss, in 1934 Mises left for Geneva, where he was a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies until 1940, when he emigrated to New York City. From 1948 to 1969, he was a visiting professor at New York University.
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“At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? . . . Amazed!”
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“The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.”
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“Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.”
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“Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.”
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“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.”
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“The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.”
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“A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.”
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“War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.”
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“To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.”
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“Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.”
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“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...”
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“Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.”
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“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.”
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“Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.”
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“The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.”
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“The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.”
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“If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.”
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“Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.”
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