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- ...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars,…
- ...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.
- No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the…
- It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket...
More Dark Ages Quotes
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum
- Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... — Bertrand Russell
- When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are… — Paul Hawken
- Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill
- [Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by… — Winston Churchill
- For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of… — George Bernard Shaw
- I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in… — Chris Shays
- Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad.… — Sylvester Stallone
- Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions… — David Berlinski
- We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not… — J.R.R. Tolkien
- Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from… — Stewart Brand
- The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese… — William D. Leahy