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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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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of…
— Smedley Butler
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Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be…
— Whitley Strieber
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How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks…
— Duke Ellington
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Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere…
— Robyn Davidson
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I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what…
— Alice Steinbach
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Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before…
— Mark Kurlansky
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It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small…
— Nancy Werlin
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There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the…
— Joan D. Vinge
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The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even…
— Sylvia Plath
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Took your car, drove to Texas. Sorry honey, but I suspected, you and I can't cry anymore.
— Sheryl Crow
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I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball…
— John Amaechi
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