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.

Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

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

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.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

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

I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.