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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Book by Ludwig von Mises · 5 quotes · Anti War, Antiwar, War

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“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.”

“The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.”