John T. Flynn Quotes

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

I have constantly preached what our opponents are pleased to call "jingo doctrines" for a good many years.

Chinese have a history of being a victim of aggression, not of being aggressive. Culturally there is no tendency to acquire territory.

War is capitalism with the gloves off …

Fascism is a religion; the twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

Fascism is a religious concept.

The decades of Imperialism have been prolific in wars; most of these wars have been directly motived by aggression of white races upon "lower races," and have issued in the forcible seizure of territory. Every one of the steps of expansion in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific has been accompanied by bloodshed; each imperialist Power keeps an increasing army available for foreign service; rectification of frontiers, punitive expeditions, and other euphemisms for war ...

There are no militarist adventuristic groups in USSR as among dominating classes in certain other countries where dangerous talk of "third world war" is being encouraged by foul imperialists. True supporters of peace will find real and faithful ally in USSR. This does not mean that our concern for the maintenance of our Armed Forces will diminish. Our Government and Red Army leaders are doing everything to assure that our Army is second to no other Army as regards newest types of armament.

Foreign policy can be the undoing of absolute rulers, tempted to foreign adventure in order to compensate for failure at home or spurred on by domestic adulation.