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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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 fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
Henry A. Wallace
It is an infectious disease, and we must all be on our guard against intolerance, bigotry and the pretension of invidious distinction.
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
It may be encountered in Wall Street, Main Street or Tobacco Road. Some even suspect that they can detect incipient traces of it along the Potomac.
Henry A. Wallace
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
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