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.

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.