Smedley Butler
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A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. ✨ War Is A Racket. Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book War Is a Racket, 1935.

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