List of Smedley Butler Quotes

One Hundred And Twenty Marines Were Detailed To Officer A Force Of Twenty-six Hundred Haitians.

I Helped Make Mexico, Especially Tampico, Safe For American Oil Interests In 1914. I Helped Make Haiti And Cuba A Decent Place For The National City Bank Boys To Collect Revenues In.

It Is Dressed Into Speeches About Patriotism, Love Of Country...but The Profits...skyrocket.

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.

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.

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.

War Is Just A Racket... I Believe In Adequate Defense At The Coastline And Nothing Else.

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.

War Is A Racket. It Always Has Been. It Is Possibly The Oldest, Easily The Most Profitable, Surely The Most Vicious.

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.

I Had A Swell Racket. I Was Rewarded With Honors, Medals, Promotions. L Might Have Given Al Capone A Few Hints. The Best He Could Do Was To Operate A Racket In Three City Districts. The Marines Operated On Three Continents.

...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!