Smedley Butler Quotes

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.

Smedley Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 30, 1881 - June 21, 1940

Topics

LightAmericanHouseSugarWayOil

I don't need you to be funny. I don't want to be entertained.

Jerry Seinfeld

FunnyYouWantNeedEntertained

I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately.

John Key

ResponsibilityMeYouDareSeriously

A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.

Matthew Lewis

StrugglePeopleThinkYearsI Think

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

Jeanne Moreau

PeopleYouSeeUpGiveOne Thing

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Stephen Curry

MountainClimbYouWhyWayTry

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

Trofim Lysenko

DayFightFreeGuiltyOutClassics

It would take enormous expertise for Amazon to win in every category. Do you think McDonald's could be number one in hamburgers, seafood, and Chinese food?

Masayoshi Son

FoodWinThinkYouMcDonaldSeafood

Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime.

Michael T. Flynn

PeaceLifetimeGoingMiddleEast

I don't own an iPod!

Don Dokken

OwniPod

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

Cher

TrustStupidLazyHimLikeHe

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.

Bobby Sands

LovePeopleWishCountryAdmit

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

Armistead Maupin

AgeCompleteWellFactMaybe

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