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“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, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

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“In a 1931 speech, Butler recounted a story about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, how he had run over a child with his car, and said, as he moved on, “It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of the State.”
― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

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