| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1926 |
| AUTHOR: | Dudley Wright Knox (18771960) |
| QUOTATION: | War is itself a political act with primarily political objects and under the American form of government political officials must necessarily direct its general course. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Captain DUDLEY W. KNOX, A History of the United States Navy, chapter 24, final paragraph, p. 274 (1936). |
| SUBJECTS: | War | | |
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