Henry A. Wallace

Henry A. Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American economist and politician. He was the thirty-third vice president of the United States (1941–45), the eleventh secretary of agriculture (1933–40), and the tenth secretary of commerce (1945–46). In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.

Henry A. Wallace-Townsend, 1940

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. ~ Henry A. Wallace

Quotes

• The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information..
  • Quoted by Thom Hartmann in Fascists Compete To Own America, Common Dreams, (30 April 2018)

• 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.
  • Quoted by Thom Hartmann in Fascists Compete To Own America, Common Dreams, (30 April 2018)

• American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information... Fascism is a worldwide disease... greatest threat to the United States will come after the war... within the United States itself.
  • Quoted by Thom Hartmann in Fascists Compete To Own America, Common Dreams, (30 April 2018)

• If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. ... They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
  • Quoted by Thom Hartmann in Fascists Compete To Own America, Common Dreams, (30 April 2018)

• They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
  • Quoted by Thom Hartmann in Fascists Compete To Own America, Common Dreams, (30 April 2018)

• The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. 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.
• If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort.
  • "The Danger of American Fascism," in New York Times, April 9, 1944. Quoted in: Democracy Reborn (New York, 1944) p. 259.

• My first introduction to economics came by way of Professor B.H. Hibbard. I remember being asked in 1910, at the close of my college course, who had influenced me most, and I said Professor Hibbard. Later, of course, we came to disagree violently about the McNary-Haugen Bill and some other things; but I still think that Professor Hibbard is a very good teacher.
  • Henry Agard Wallace (1973), Democracy reborn, p. 96; cited in: Gerard F. Vaaughn, "Benjamin H. Hibbard: Scholar for Policy Making," in Choices, First Quarter 1998, p. 38.

Quotes about Henry A. Wallace

• the Progressive Party, with its extravagant claims, has, therefore, imposed on itself the considerable burden of proof. The only party within recent memory which made equally strident claims of fellowship were the Communists, who failed to survive this test; and the only politician of similar claims was, of course, Wallace's erstwhile master, Roosevelt, who did not after all, now that the magic of his voice is gone, succeed in raising the darker brother to the status of a citizen. This is the ancestry of the Wallace party, and it does not work wholly in its favor. It operates to give pause to even the most desperate and the most gullible.
  • James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son (1955)

• In 1948 the two-party duopoly smeared and suppressed the pro-labor efforts by the Progressive Party and its presidential candidate, former Vice President (under Franklin Delano Roosevelt) Henry Wallace. This was followed by more onerous restrictions on state ballot access and exclusions of third parties, enacted by both the Republicans and Democrats, that further stunted competitive choices of candidates and agendas.
  • Ralph Nader, Breaking Through Power (2016)

See also

• Fascism