"Why don't those damn oil companies fly their……" — Smedley Butler
"Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it."
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31 Quotes by Smedley Butler
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There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is…
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War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the…
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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…
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War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a…
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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…
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War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems…
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The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and…
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For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I…
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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…
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I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a…
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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…
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Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
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I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be…
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their…
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You know we're going to control the insurance companies.
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Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people…
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
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Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.
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Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the…
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