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War Quotes by Smedley Butler
- There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
- War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars…
- My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
- War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You…
- War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
- The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that…
- War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people.…
- For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did…
- Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few…
- War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
- War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all…
- War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not…
- ...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars,…
- ...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.
- We must take the profit out of war.
- We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
More War Quotes
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- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood