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I believe in upholding the right to private property but in controlling it for the public good.
The representatives of labor should have a voice in the management of the business.
A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)
I believe in nationalizing those public resources which by their very nature are too important to be held in the control of private individuals.
I oppose modem capitalism because by its very nature it cannot and will not function for the common good. In fact, it is a detriment to civilization.
Must the entire world go to war for 600,000 Jews in Germany who are neither American, nor French, nor English citizens, but citizens of Germany?
When we get through with the Jews in America, they’ll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.
I believe that, in the event of a war for the defense of our nation and its liberties, there shall be a conscription of wealth as well as a conscription of men.
The most dangerous Communism [...] is the wolf in sheep's clothing of conservatism who bent upon preserving the policies of greed.
We maintain that it is not only the prerogative but it is also the duty of the government to limit the amount of profits acquired by any industry.
A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)
If Congress fails to back up the President in his monetary program, I predict a revolution in this country which will make the French Revolution look silly!
From European entanglements, from Nazism, communism and their future wars, America must stand aloof. Keep America safe for Americans and the Stars and Stripes the defender of God.
Our government still upholds one of the worst evils of decadent capitalism, namely, that production must be only at the profit for the owners, for the capitalist, and not the laborers.
Roosevelt has a poor brand of Russian communism … I think it is significant the leaders among the communists of the world never once attacked international bankers. Roosevelt will not touch that subject.
Nor does the concept of the Fascist or Nazi dictator appeal to the American liberty loving citizen with his traditional love for democracy and republican institutions which bar both Nazism and Fascism.
A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)
I could have bucked the Government and won — the people would have supported me. But I didn't have the heart left, for my church had spoken. It was my duty to follow, for disobedience is a great sin.
A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)
I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world's happiness.
Speech (1935)
I am beginning to understand why I have been dubbed a 'Nazi' and or a 'fascist' by the Jewish publications in America; for practically all the 16 principles of social justice are being put into practice in Italy and Germany.
If I own a shotgun that is no argument why I may kill my neighbor’s child. If I own a factory that is no argument why I may starve the laborers to make profits and profits only for the stockholders. All property is subject to control.
A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)
Are you for the old deal with its industrial dictatorship and its doctrine of laissez faire-ism or are you for a new deal whereby the government shall legislate against unfair competition, against concentration or profits in the hands of stockholders?
A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)
Modern capitalism violates right order because it so employ the working of wage earning classes as to divert business and economic activity to its own advantage without any regard to the human dignity of the workers, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.
A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)