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Smedley Butler quotes: If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad

Smedley Butler quotes: 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 quotes: My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

Smedley Butler quotes: 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 quotes: 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.

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.

Smedley Butler quotes: 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 quotes: War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

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

Smedley Butler quotes: It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country ... but the profits ... skyrocket ...

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

Smedley Butler quotes: We must take the profit out of war.

We must take the profit out of war.

Smedley Butler quotes: Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

Smedley Butler quotes: 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 quotes: One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

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

Smedley Butler quotes: There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Smedley Butler quotes: War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.