John T. Flynn quotes

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia. (John T. Flynn)
Fascism is not the result of dictatorship. View quote
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All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first. View quote
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But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form. View quote
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Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans. View quote
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The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution. View quote
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At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people. View quote
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This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning. View quote
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The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority. View quote
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We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible. View quote
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But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality. (John T. Flynn)
These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. View quote
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I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country. View quote
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The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls. View quote
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The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose. View quote
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The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines. View quote
John T. Flynn

John T. Flynn

Occupation: American Critic
Born: October 25, 1882
Died: April 13, 1964
Quotes count: 16