Smedley Butler Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

John Dalberg-Acton

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If I'm half as good as everybody said I am, I'm far too good to be wasting time with ordinary people. But I seem to be spending my life with ordinary people, who are the best people in the world.

Stan Lee

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You can have a conversation with your eyes.

Sonia Rykiel

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The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album.

Tove Lo

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I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

Tom Golisano

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Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

Russell M. Nelson

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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

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If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.

Mike Birbiglia

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The energy that's going into autonomous vehicles is very significant, and we expect to continue to invest there.

Dennis Muilenburg

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I can't actually pinpoint anything that made me want to be an actor - I just did. And then anything after that just fueled it.

Colin Morgan

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A full mind is an empty bat.

Branch Rickey

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I can live in a bubble, I like not to know anything about financials.

Alice Temperley

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