Henry Agard Wallace Quotes

• The century on which we are entering, the century that will come out of this war, can be and must be the century of the common man.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

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

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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

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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.

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• The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

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• The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

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• The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

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• The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

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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.

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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.

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Henry Agard Wallace (33)

Birth:	7th October, 1888
Death:	18th November, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Henry Agard Wallace was born in Orient, Iowa, USA. He was an American politician. He was the 33rd Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce. He was a strong supporter of New Deal liberalism, and softer policies towards the Soviet Union. In 1910, he graduated  with a bachelor's degree in animal husbandry from Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa.

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