Author: Smedley Butler

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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.

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.

- Smedley Butler

We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.

We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.

- Smedley Butler

We must take the profit out of war.

We must take the profit out of war.

- Smedley Butler

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

- Smedley Butler

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

- Smedley Butler

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