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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.