History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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 is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
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.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
Once you start a war, you have to win.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
The principal cause of war is war itself.