Destruction Quote by Joseph Sobran

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

— Joseph Sobran

The power of making war often prevents it.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the…

— Murray Rothbard

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

— Sun Tzu

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

— Murray Rothbard

In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's…

— Robert Higgs

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an…

— Arthur Henderson

War is merely a continuation of politics,

— Carl von Clausewitz

War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the…

— Kenneth Waltz

“War is merely the continuation of politics by other means”

— Carl von Clausewitz

“War is simply the continuation of politics by other means”

— Carl von Clausewitz