Smedley Butler People Quotations

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

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 group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.