War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American writer

Essay (1935-09), “Notes on the Next War,” Esquire, Vol. 4, No. 3
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See Von Pléhve (1903).