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"War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings."
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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"
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"Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation."

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

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

"It has been proposed that monetary liabilities should be settled in terms of gold and not according to their nominal amount. If this proposal were adopted, for each mark that had been borrowed that sum would have to be repaid that could at the time of repayment buy the same weight of gold as one mark could at the time when the debt contract was entered into. The fact that such proposals are now put forward and meet with approval shows that etatism has already lost its hold on the monetary system and that inflationary policies are inevitably approaching their end. Even only a few years ago, such a proposal would either have been ridiculed or else branded as high treason."

"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."

"When the price of coal falls because production has increased while demand has remained unaltered, then, for example, those retailers are involved who have taken supplies from the wholesale dealers at the old higher price but are now able to dispose of them only at the new and lower price. But this alone will not account for all the social changes brought about by the increase of production of coal. The increase in the supply of coal will have improved the economic position of the community."
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