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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.

Henry A. Wallace

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Henry A. Wallace
Age: 77 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 7
Died: 1965
Died: November 18
Former Vice President Of The United States
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Henry Agard Wallace
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People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
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The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.
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To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.
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A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
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The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
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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.
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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.
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In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.
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