“The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.”– William Westmoreland Related Quotes “The real war will never get in the books.”– Walt Whitman “Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.”– Elizabeth Bowen “In most communities it is illegal to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?”– Dwight D. Eisenhower