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June
11th, 2001
"Your
Liberty Is Our Interest"
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"...This
curiously un-American doctrine was being peddled in America as the bright
flower of the liberals. Of course they did not dare call it fascism,
because that had a bad name. They did not dare admit that it implied the
restoration to the State of a numerous collection of those very powers,
which we had stripped from the State as the means of giving freedom to
men. They called it the Planned Economy. But it was and is fascism by
whatever name it is known. And though it may be launched under a free
republic, it will wither and die because of the feebleness of the
government which tries to enforce it by helpless appeals to the people.
Little by little the government must be made stronger; the rights of the
citizens before government must be reduced. Little by little, if the
Planned Economy is to be made to work, the free republic must wither.
These two ideas-the idea of a free republic and the idea of a Planned
Economy- cannot live together." - John T. Flynn "The
Roosevelt Myth"
(50th Anniversary edition) pp. 140-141
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