“But what does it profit the men who are killed? What does it profit their mothers and sisters, their wives and their sweethearts? What does it profit their children? What does it profit anyone except the very few to whom war means huge profits? Yes, and what does it profit the nation?”
War is a racket (1935)
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Context: Fair Elphin, cease your lament!
Swearing profits no-one.
It is not evil to hope
Nor does any man see what supports him,
Not an empty treasure is the prayer of Cynllo,
Nor does God break his promise.

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
As quoted in Finding Your Bipolar Muse : How to Master Depressive Droughts and Manic Depression (2006) by Lana R. Castle, p. 258

“Profits are what you make when not working.”
Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 2, p. 9

1994 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1994.html
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)

Source: "Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice" (1911), p. 44

“The profit of the one is the profit of the other.”
Economic harmonies, par. 4.118.
Source: 1940s, The Economics of Peace, 1945, p. 239