The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.
John T. FlynnI think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.
John T. FlynnBut no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
John T. FlynnImperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.
John T. Flynn