Henry A. Wallace
Henry A. Wallace
Henry Agard Wallacewas the 33rd Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce. Wallace was a strong supporter of New Deal liberalism, rapid desegregation, and softer policies towards the Soviet Union. His public feuds with other officials caused significant controversy during his time as Vice President under Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the midst of World War II, and resulted in Democrats dropping him from the ticket in the 1944 election in favor of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionVice President
Date of Birth7 October 1888
CountryUnited States of America
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.
The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.
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 obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. 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.
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.