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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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It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot…
— Sholom Aleichem
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War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.
— Alexander Hamilton
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No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend…
— Peter J. McGuire
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Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
— Pope John Paul II
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War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people…
— Smedley Butler
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Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because…
— Diego Luna
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No one hates war like a soldier hates war.
— Tommy Franks
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When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
— Lester B. Pearson
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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies
— Unknown Author
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When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the…
— Tom Hanks
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When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in…
— Oriana Fallaci
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