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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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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits…
— Smedley Butler
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There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's…
— Dalton Trumbo
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During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.
— Fritz Haber
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When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we…
— Wayne Muller
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What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War…
— Benjamin B. Ferencz
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In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at…
— Jean Giraudoux
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My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why…
— Vladimir Putin
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In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is…
— Gertrude Stein
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Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any…
— Terry Pratchett
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If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has…
— Charles Spurgeon
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