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There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill…
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War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are…
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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the…
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War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to…
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War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits…
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War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the…
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The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas…
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For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to…
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I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the…
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I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place…
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I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for…
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"Ok you're a goon but what's a goon to a goblin"
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Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
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Rock 'n' roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. And, by…
— Frank Sinatra
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Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a…
— Charles Krauthammer
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who…
— Edward Abbey
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There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay…
— Frank Rich
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We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your…
— Karl Hess
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If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized…
— Smedley Butler
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And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of…
— Jean M. Auel
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I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.
— Wanda Jackson
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I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out,…
— Jay Baruchel
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