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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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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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Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going…
— Hank Aaron
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Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely…
— Roger Maris
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I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you…
— Herbert Hoover
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really…
— Ellen Glasgow
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To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength…
— Walt Disney
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After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.
— Sara Gruen
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It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.
— Roger Maris
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I think my girlfriend has had sixty-one boyfriends before me. She calls me her sixty second lover.
— Green Monk
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