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We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.19, Rowman & Littlefield
We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.