Smedley Butler Quotes - Page 2

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• ...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, WWI). ...The leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of saddles for the calvary. But there wasn't any calvary overseas!

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  Uncles, War, Dark

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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 Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

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  Country, Military, Marine

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.

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  Country, Dark, Age

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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 civil life did I fully realize it.

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  War, Years, Soldier

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.8, The Forlorn Press

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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 military service.

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  Peace, Military, War

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• 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 - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

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  War, Blood, Territory

  Smedley Darlington Butler (2016). “War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• ...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.

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  Uncles, War, Dark

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• One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

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  Marine, Six, Twenties

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