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I am not boasting when I say to you that I know the pulse of the people. I know it better than all your newspaper men. I know it better than do all your industrialists with your paid-for advice. I am not exaggerating when I tell you of their demand for social justice which, like a tidal wave, is sweeping over this nation.

— Charles Coughlin

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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?

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