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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

Henry A. Wallace Americans Discrimination Hitler Politics

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.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.They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

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Henry A. Wallace Big Business Fascism Greed Patriotism Politics Wealth

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.

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Henry A. Wallace Fascism Greed Money Politics Power

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.

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Henry A. Wallace Fascism Politics Tolerance

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

Henry A. Wallace Fascism Fox News Media Politics Press Propaganda

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

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Henry A. Wallace Change Liberal Politics Progress

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

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Henry A. Wallace Business Democracy Greed Money Monopolies

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

~ Henry A. Wallace

Henry A. Wallace Common Man Democracy Lincoln Populism Populist

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.

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Henry A. Wallace War American Effort

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

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Henry A. Wallace America Greatest Within

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

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Henry A. Wallace Power Democracy World

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

~ Henry A. Wallace

Henry A. Wallace Spiritual Vision Democracy

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

Henry A. Wallace Money Truth Power

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

Henry A. Wallace Thinking Environment Play

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

Henry A. Wallace Man Political Capture

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.

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Henry A. Wallace Opportunity Competition

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.

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Henry A. Wallace American Propaganda

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

~ Henry A. Wallace

Henry A. Wallace Time Peace Power
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