"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. 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-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."— Smedley D. Butler - 2x Medal of Honor Recipient
"My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military." -Smedley D. Butler
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"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. 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-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."— Smedley D. Butler - 2x Medal of Honor Recipient
"My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military." -Smedley D. Butler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865
https://archive.org/stream/WarIsARacket/WarIsARacket_djvu.txt