But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and then only did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world.

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.

At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

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.