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Smedley Butler

American

June 30, 1881

Soldier

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We must take the profit out of war.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Tags: Great War Life

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

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