Logo
Quote by Smedley Butler
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is

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

Other quotes by Smedley Butler

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

Category:
War
Author
Smedley Butler
Read Quote

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

Category:
Home
Author
Smedley Butler
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
War
category

It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I dont regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldnt save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. Im not naive, and I dont romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. – Chris Kyle

Category:
War

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. – Norman Schwarzkopf

Category:
War

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. – Arlen Specter

Category:
War

The cannon thunders… limbs fly in all directions… one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice… its Humanity in search of happiness. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
War

Random Quotes

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, its so grimly brutal! – Robert Creeley

Category:
Imagination

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. – Epicurus

Category:
Friendship

Smiles form the channel of a future tear. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
smile

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

Category:
Life