War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

We must take the profit out of war.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

War is a racket. 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.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.

You are a god wrapped in flesh

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

The way of the Cross is not easy, yet it is the tuneful, the rhythmic, the beautiful, the lovely way.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.

I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.

Long term interest of the nation should be foremost.

Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.