Smedley Butler Quote

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.


War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading (ed. The Forlorn Press, 2015)


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.

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.

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.

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.