Henry A. Wallace Quotes

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• A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Money, Party, Race

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• The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power, so that using the power of the State and the power of the market simultaneously they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Hate, Men, Russia

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• It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Tyrants, Growth, Prejudice

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• American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those who stand for the K.K.K. type of demagoguery.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Information, Type, Coalitions

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• Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Men, Hype, Political

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• The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Poison, Use, Information

  "The Danger of American Fascism," in "The New York Times", (April 9, 1944); Quoted in "Democracy Reborn", New York, (p. 259), 1944.

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• In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Growing Up, Sacrifice, Effort

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• The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Truth, Cracks, Facts

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• The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Air, People, Giving

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• Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Opportunity, Competition, Democracy

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• If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Money, Greed, United States

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• The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Thinking, Vanity, Order

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• This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Fighting, World

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• If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Patriotic, May

  "The Danger of American Fascism". New York Times (April 9, 1944). Quoted in: "Democracy Reborn", p. 259, 1944.

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• The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Truth, America, Facts

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• With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Money, Hype, Giving

  "The Danger of American Fascism". New York Times, April 9, 1944.

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• A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Change, Believe, Certainty In Life

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• It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Country, Religious, Views

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• People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Mother, Nature, Memories

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• Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Law, Giving

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• We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Government, Oligarchy, Cartels

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• It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Technology, Age, Modern

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• The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Men, Entering, Common

  Speech, 8 May 1942, in 'Vital Speeches' (1942) vol. 8, p. 483

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• The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Struggle, Fighting, Japan

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• The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Men, Usa, Want

  "The Danger of American Fascism". New York Times, April 9, 1944.

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