War Is A Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

by Smedley D. Butler

By oratory and the influence of the Press, public opinion is largely created by the State, and a tyrannous public opinion is as great an enemy to liberty as tyrannous laws.

Here was a man who perhaps had been driven to death by a pack of silly women.

Thinking ill of others is not in itself a good reason for thinking well of ourselves.

revolutionary, public opinion must be reckoned as a definite part of the power of the State.

The external activity of the

is selfish.

[By England in South Africa, America in the Philippines, France in Morocco, Italy in Tripoli, Germany in Southwest Africa, Russia in Persia and Manchuria, Japan in Manchuria.] except Austria; and in the case of Austria only the opportunity, not the will, was lacking.