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I believe that, in the present state of human society, it is advisable that the hourly wage contract should be abolished. In its stead legislation would be passed by which the laborer would receive an annual wage which would enable him to live in decently and according to the American standard.

— Charles Coughlin A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)

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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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