“I have not come here to stir you in a recital of the necessity for relief for our suffering fellow citizens. However, unless something is done for them, and done soon, you will have a revolution on hand. And when that revolution comes it will not be made by the communists [Anarchists, AntiFa, or Socialists]. When the revolution comes it will bear the label “Made in the U.S.A.” and its’ chief promoters will be the American citizen.
,,, There is a feeling among the people that something is radically wrong. They are despairing of political action. They say the only thing you do in Washington is take money from the pockets of the [middle class] and put it in the pockets of the rich [and the lazy]. They say this government is a conspiracy against the common people to enrich the already rich [and support the indolent]. I hear such remarks every day.” – Oscar Ameringer, Testimony before the House Committee on Labor, February 1932
“We are challenged with a choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines – of paternalism and socialism. The acceptance of these doctrines will mean the destruction of self-government through centralized government. It will mean the undermining of the individual initiative and enterprise through which our people have grown to unparalleled greatness.
Shall we depart from the principles of our American political and economic system, upon which we have advanced beyond all the rest of the world, in order to adopt methods based on principles destructive of its very foundations?
You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people’s souls and thoughts. Every expansion of government … means that government in order to protect itself from the political consequences of its’ errors and wrongs is driven irresistibly to greater and greater control of the nation’s press and platform. Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.” – President Herbert Hoover, Rugged Individualism, 1928
“Economic stoppage is not natural., Our selfishness and ignorance have created it.” – “If a man is right he need not fear to stand alone. Every right idea has many adherents. He may seem lonely but they are only silent – waiting for a leader to declare them.” – Henry Ford, Youth, Industry, and Progress, October 1928
****See blog: “Remedy for Anarchy and Tyranny” July 8, 2020
