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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.

Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

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.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.