. . . Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:). . . The coal companies made between 100% … - Smedley Butler

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I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.

Smedley Butler

. . . Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:). . . The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars, WWI). . . . The leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of saddles for the calvary. But there wasn't any calvary overseas!

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One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

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It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country. . . but the profits. . . skyrocket.

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I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

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. . . The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

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