'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.'

'Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation…

'There are 40,000,000 men under arms in the world today, and our statesmen and diplomats have the temerity to say that war is not in the making. Hell's bells! …

'A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva…

People like Mr Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.

This time Milo had gone too far. Bombing his own men and planes was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach, and it looked like the end for h…

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.