War versus American Freedom | John V. Denson (1994)
Channel: misesmedia
Date: 14/11/2023

"History shows us that even the just war, fought to oppose a clear-and-present danger to life, liberty, and property, still causes a severe loss of freedom. Even in a just and successful war, the result is one step forward in the defense of freedom, and then two steps backward to increase and centralize governmental power in order to engage in the war."

Recorded at the Mises Institute's "Costs of War" conference in May 1994 in Auburn, Alabama: https://mises.org/library/the-costs-war

John V. Denson is Distinguished Scholar in History and Law at the Mises Institute. He is a practicing attorney in Alabama and the editor of two books, *The Costs of War* and *Reassessing the Presidency*, and the author of *A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt*.