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I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wa…

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War is a racket. It always has been... 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 …

Smedley Butler peace end you

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 …

Smedley Butler best believe small

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.

Smedley Butler losses which racket

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.

Smedley Butler life great soldier

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Smedley Butler fight rights

I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks …

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War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

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I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In Chi…

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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 wr…

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Unscramble SMEDLEY 7-letter words that start with S 7-letter words that end in Y 7-letter words containing ME 7-letter words containing EY 7-letter words with S and M

Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day

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N

Hint 1 meaning

The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

NEE

Hint 3 another clue

AND STILL ___

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