Henry A. Wallace Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression.

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.

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

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

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

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

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.

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

Good farming, clear thinking, right living.

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