“Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.”
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
No. 5.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. 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.”
— Smedley D. Butler, book War Is a Racket
War is a racket (1935)
War is a racket (1935)
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