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Smedley Butler has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Popular Haitians quotes from across the collection:
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Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
— Tony Campolo
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It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about…
— Pat Robertson
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It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our…
— Michel Martelly
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The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of…
— Rick Bragg
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We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.
— Smedley Butler
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Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and…
— Danny Glover
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In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants.…
— Kathryn Lasky
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
— Madison Smartt Bell
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