Quote by Smedley Butler
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coast

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

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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. – Smedley Butler

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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

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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this? – Imran Khan

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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. – Ramsey Clark

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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. – Albert Einstein

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