Away Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

— Robert A. Heinlein

War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections

— Joseph Sobran

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

— Anonymous

War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted in such a way that they…

— H. R. McMaster

The power of making war often prevents it.

— Thomas Jefferson

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

— Henry Giroux

War is just one more big government program.

— Joseph Sobran

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing…

— Thomas Paine

People do not make wars; governments do.

— Ronald Reagan

War is like government, a matter of tact.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

— Howard Zinn

War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.

— Karl Von Clausewitz