"Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
~ Ludwig von Mises ~
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
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