Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1926
AUTHOR:
Dudley Wright Knox (1877–1960)
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).
