My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain internation questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. We ought not to forget that wars are a purely manufactured evil and are made according to a definite technique. A campaign for war is made upon as definite lines as a campaign for any other purpose. First, the people are worked upon. By clever tales the people's suspicions are aroused toward the nation against whom war is desired. Make the nation suspicious; make other nations suspicious. All you need for this is a few agents with some cleverness and no conscious and a press whose interest is locked up with the interests that will be benefited by war. Then the "over act" will soon appear. It is no trick at all to get an "over act" once you work the hatred of two nations up to the proper pitch

-Henry Ford