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

  Henry A. Wallace

  Men, Entering, Common

  Speech, 8 May 1942, in 'Vital Speeches' (1942) vol. 8, p. 483

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

  Henry A. Wallace

  Struggle, Fighting, Japan

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

  Henry A. Wallace

  Technology, Age, Modern

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

  Henry A. Wallace

  Joy, Political, Understanding

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• 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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Taken, Years, Four

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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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Latin, War, America

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

  Henry A. Wallace

  Government, Oligarchy, 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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Democracy, Vacuums

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• The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

  Henry A. Wallace

  People, Efficiency, Fascists

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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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Patriotic, Patriotism

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• 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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Heart, Erosion, Land

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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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Effort, Connections

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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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  People, United States, May

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

  Henry A. Wallace

  Latin, America, Europe

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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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Air, People, May

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• Good farming, clear thinking, right living.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Thinking, Farming, Clear

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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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Hype, Deceit, Definitions

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

  Henry A. Wallace

  Years, Three, Half

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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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Spiritual, Men, Ethos

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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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Country, Latin, America

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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.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Latin, Work Out, United States

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