'(a certain politician) insisted that he " would rather welcome a foreign war." He feared that Americans had lost their "soldierly" virtues in the race for material gain, and were becoming "slothful, timid" and sedentary. "The victories of peace are great but the victories of war are greater," he maintained. "No merchant, no banker,  no railroad magnate, no inventor of improved industrial processes can do for any nation what can be done for it by its great fighting men." While (another politician), who had "seen the dead piled up (in actual war)" prayed for peace, (a certain politician), who had never seen combat, absurdly romanticized war.  "Every man who has in him any real power of joy in battle," he blithely wrote, "knows that he feels it when the wolf begins to rise in his heart; he does not shrink from blood and sweat,  or deem that they mar the fight, he revels in them,  in the toil, the pain, and the danger, as but setting off the triumph." '

Dick Cheney during the leadup to the invasion of Iraq? No, Teddy Roosevelt during the leadup to the Spanish-American war. 

Quote from http://nytimes.com/2013/11/17/books/rev … ulpit.html