Asks Quote by Byron Dorgan

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning…

— Ken Mehlman

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

— Anonymous

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

— Plato

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

— Benjamin Franklin

Wars are made to make debt.

— Ezra Pound

“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough…

— Abraham Flexner

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning…

— Ken Mehlman

As a rich country, we can, in some sense, "afford" the war. But spending money on the war means that we are not spending…

— Joseph Stiglitz

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

— Abraham Flexner

When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them…

— David Ramsey

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our…

— Stanley Hauerwas