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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."

- Smedley Butler

Awareness

"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

Belief

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

Insight