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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

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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.

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We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: June 30th, 1881

Died: June 21st, 1940

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