"If wars are to be avoided by our country, it can be done only by determined and simple political action on the part of the great majority of our country. The trusting majority. Which majority does not get up for wars, but which does fight them and which does pay all the bills in blood and money. So it is this great majority to which these remarks are addressed...
"Lying propoganda is almost certainly necessary to rouse a nation to the pitch where men kill and women give their men and boys to be killed.
"Any war Americans have fought or may fight in the future outside their own continental boundaries has been or will be a racket. A mean, cruel, yes filthy racket. By 'racket' I mean something that appears to be one thign to the crowd, but in reality to a favored few insiders is something entirely different. During our participation in the World War, our soldiers thought they were fighting to defend their homes, to make the world 'safe for democracy'...'We're fighting a war to end wars.' Rot. Pure unadulterated sickening rot. The underlying secret causes which led those in authority to send our soldiers thousands of miles overseas in the past were not the reasons given those soldiers for their going.
"It is too much to expect that this nation will be kept at peace by those whose financial condition would benefit by our participation in a war. The masses who have nothing to gain but everything to lose must keep us out. The steps taken to keep us out must be fully understood and vigorously supported by this mass. Appealing peace slogans must be coined and there can be nothing better than: 'Attend to our own business.'"
"Sub-cellar, crooked, selfish national action inevitably leads to war."
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