To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.
The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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