Henry Ford quotation from Henry Ford's Own Story

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erests--the comfort and happiness of their people--were all one interest. "Left to themselves, the real German people would never fight the French people, never in the world. No more than Iowa would fight Michigan. Race differences? They do not exist in sufficient degree to make men fight, and they are disappearing every day. See how the races mix in America! I have fifty-three nationalities, speaking more than one hundred different languages and dialects, in my shops, and they never have any trouble. They realize that their interests are all the same. "What is the root of the whole question? The real interests of all men are the same--work, food and shelter, and happiness. When they all work together for those, every one will have plenty. "What do people fight for? Does fighting make more jobs, better homes, more to eat? No. People fight because they are taught that the only way to get these things is to take them from some one else. The common people, the people who lose most by fighting, don't know what they are fighting for. They fight because they are told to. What do they get out of it? Disgust, shame, grief, wounds, death, ruin, starvation. War is the most hideous waste in the world." In the first terrible months of the war the American people, in horror, echoed that opinion. With the spectacle of half the world in blood