The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
As a soldier, I stand ready to serve and protect and defend this country. And as a soldier, I know the cost… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
“The true cost of war can't be measured in dollars, infrastructure, or body counts. It is tomorrows, wrung out of hope by… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents… A lasting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The cost of war impacts all of us - both in the human cost and the cost that's being felt frankly in… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The people who are sending our men and women in uniform into conflict need to understand that there are some things worth… — MJ Hegar Copy Share Image
Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty. This is… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
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