Occupation: Author Birth: July 30, 1881 Death: June 21, 1940
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 parleys ….
Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it..
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City ….
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military servic….
I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the finished ….
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights..
I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short,….
...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars, ….
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….
No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they….
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….
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is ….
If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squa….
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 a….
I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle….
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit..
War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had a….
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..
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long... Looking back ….
Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should ….
...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits..