Alexander C. Hanson Quotes

Of course the people don't want war... It is the leaders...who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along...all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

War is the continuation of politics." In this sense war is politics and war itself is political action.... It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

It is from the pride and ambition of rulers and the ignorance of the people that wars arise.

If there is going to be a war – and no one can say that there is not – we must keep him fresh to be our war Prime Minister

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

When the state does go to war ... so too should the nation.

War is the only destination to which Washington can lead.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

People like to talk about war.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

Any great war must be a popular movement.

We’re not declaring war. We haven’t declared war since the Second World War. We’re going to war.