“If the State uses this power systematically in order to force the community to accept a particular sort of money whose employment it desires for reasons of monetary policy, then it is actually carrying through a measure of monetary policy. The States which completed the transition to a gold standard a generation ago, did so from motives of monetary policy. They gave up the silver standard or the credit-money standard because they recognized that the behaviour of the value of silver or of credit money was unsuited to the economic policy they were following.”

“The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.”

“The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.”

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

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

“The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.”

“Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.”

“Peace and not war is the father of all things.”

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

“Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.”

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