Nothing can serve as a substitute for an ideology that enhances human life by fostering social cooperation — least of all lies, whether they be called ‘tactics,’ ‘diplomacy,’ or ‘compromise.’ If men will not, from a recognition of social necessity, voluntarily do what must be done if society is to be maintained and general well-being advanced, no one can lead them to the right path by any cunning stratagem or artifice.
Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism, first published in German as Liberalismus, 1927, and in English as The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth, 1962.