So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.
Arthur William Allen, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noel Noel-Buxton Baron Noel-Buxton, Philip Snowden Snowden (Viscount) (1913). “President Wilson on the United States and Latin America: Address Before the Southern Commercial Congress at Mobile, Alabama, October 27, 1913”
