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.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

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

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

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

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

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

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.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

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

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

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

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

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

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

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

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

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.