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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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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
— John Clare
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To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad…
— Sun Tzu
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A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the…
— Unknown Author
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Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander…
— Hal Moore
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A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb…
— Wanderlei Silva
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Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.
— Bear Bryant
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I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn't get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after one year,…
— Kathy Griffin
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In comparison to the emotionally-charged axing of a striker, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who averaged 30 goals a season, even the sale of…
— Pete Gill
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Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen, he had everything. Two good feet. Magic in the air. Quick. Powerful. Could…
— Osvaldo Ardiles
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Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by…
— Unknown Author
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I don't kill soloists only kill squads
— Nas
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