Great Quote by Smedley Butler

War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like…

— Smedley Butler

“War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.”

— Sean Beaudoin

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

— Ru Freeman

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

— David Hackworth

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote…

— Jesse Ventura

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

— Mel Brooks

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of…

— Smedley Butler

“War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see…

— Robert Graff

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and…

— Daniel Morgan

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the…

— Elliott Kay

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to…

— Zachary Taylor