Ludwig von Mises: "Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit." - Theory and History
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| Ludwig von Mises | All attempts to create a substantive international law through whose application disputes among nations could be decided have miscarried. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 90 | International Law |
| Ludwig von Mises | [Y]ou simply cannot argue with nationalists. The Germans are fully convinced that compulsion applied by them to other nations is fair and just, while compulsion applied to themselves is criminal. | Omnipotent Government | pp. 25758 | International Law |
| Ludwig von Mises | No international authority can preserve peace if economic wars continue. In our age of international division of labor, free trade is the prerequisite for any amicable arrangement between nations. And free trade is impossible in a world of etatism. | Omnipotent Government | p. 6 | International Law |