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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.
The principal cause of war is war itself.
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.
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.
I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
War is just an effect, not a cause.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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