Ezra Pound Quotes

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.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

War is just one more big government program.

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

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

Wars cost money.

… war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

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

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.

Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.

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

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.