#pretext

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If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.


Robert M. La Follette


#another #invent #make #party #pretext

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.


Ludwig Quidde


#because #danger #imagined #maintained #necessary

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.


Friedrich August von Hayek


#been #emergencies #eroded #individual #individual liberty

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.


John Bright


#argument #balance #balance of power #never #peace

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.


Jon Stewart


#destruction #evidence #gun #invading #iraq

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.


Rudyard Kipling


#justification #mistakes #pretexts #humor