"All who seek to destroy liberty in a democratic nation should know that war offers them the surest and shortest route to success." (p 766, Vol 2, pt III, Chapter 22)
and a bit before the above tidbit is this:
"War does not always deliver democratic peoples into the hands of military government, but it cannot fail to bring about a vast increase in the prerogatives of civilian government. It almost inevitably leads to centralization in the latter of control over men and things."
The book is good, and it keeps providing nuggets of interest. I don't know what is next on the book list for reading while on the elliptical machine at the gym, but I doubt there will be anything I bring back feel the need to transcribe bits and pieces for people, in the odd hope maybe someone else will read this book.
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