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Top 6 Smedley D. Butler Quotes (2025 Update)

Smedley D. Butler Quote: “In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn’t join the army.”
Smedley D. Butler Quote: “To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.”
Smedley D. Butler Quote: “The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted.”
Smedley D. Butler Quote: “It has been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits. That is how the 21,000 billionaires and millionaires got that way. This $16,000,000,000 profits is not to be sneezed at. It is quite a tidy sum. And it went to a very few.”
Smedley D. Butler Quote: “Victory or defeat will be determined by the skill and ingenuity of our scientists. If we put them to work making poison gas and more and more fiendish mechanical and explosive instruments of destruction, they will have no time for the constructive job of creating greater prosperity for all peoples.”
Smedley D. Butler Quote: “The active pacifists, however, are not of this class: they are not men without impulsive force but men in whom some impulse to which war is hostile is strong enough to overcome the impulses that lead to war.”
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