“When a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry.”
Taylor Caldwell
“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac…War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
George Orwell
