Thucydides Quotes

Endless money forms the sinews of war. Nervi belli pecunia infinita.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Our guns are not called upon to hurl huge projectiles each one of which costs as much as the construction of a happy home.

In peace and war it's always money.

Wars cost money.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

There are no straight line projections of cost in a war.

Were the expense of war to be defrayed always by a revenue raised within the year ... wars would in general be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly undertaken

Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

We disarm ourselves by making weapons so expensive.

The Pentagon cannot acquire any equipment or technology without adequate funding. And the current budget process does not allow for the development and deployment of solutions to urgent problems on the battlefield.

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.

I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

Wars are made to make debt.

As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.