Quotes from Henry A. Wallace
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
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
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.
— Henry A. Wallace
The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
— Henry A. Wallace
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.
— Henry A. Wallace
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.
— Henry A. Wallace
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
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
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
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
— Henry A. Wallace
The people's revolution is on the march, and the devil and all his angels cannot prevail against it.
— Henry A. Wallace
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
— Henry A. Wallace