Charles E. Coughlin Quotes

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

There have been … totalitarian forces in our lifetime: The totalitarianism of fascism and now of capitalism.

As a matter of fact, it is the fascist minded men of America who are the real enemies of our institutions.... It is these men who, pretending that they would save us from communism, would superimpose upon America an equally dreaded fascism.

If you know anything, deny, deny, deny. I want to save Fascism.

We are going through a fascistic time..

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.

I don't believe that either fascism or communism is the solution or that they may come back on this earth.

Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

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 is not the result of dictatorship.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

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.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

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.

Russia is classic fascism.