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Cary

(11,746 posts)
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 01:23 PM Nov 2015

"War is the foreign policy of the incompetent."

For some reason I have had it in my head for many years that Madison said that. I don't know why. It seems too good for me to have invented it.

Has anyone else ever heard this quote, and if so who said it?

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"War is the foreign policy of the incompetent." (Original Post) Cary Nov 2015 OP
I don't know whether Madison ever said that... Dale Neiburg Nov 2015 #1

Dale Neiburg

(698 posts)
1. I don't know whether Madison ever said that...
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 01:37 PM
Nov 2015

But he did say, "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

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