Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1915 |
| AUTHOR: | Karl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) |
| QUOTATION: | War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. |
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| SUBJECTS: | War |