Henry Agard Wallace Quotes

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

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• Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

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

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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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