War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside... →
Smedley Butler
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.
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.
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by... →
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
We must take the profit out of war.
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America... →
Steve Buyer
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
A. S. Byatt
This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
Robert Byrd