Paving Stones of a Dangerous Road

Further Addresses Upon the American Road
By Herbert Hoover, September 28, 1938

Many of Mr. Roosevelt’s objectives are hoary with reaction.  They include the destruction of the independence of the judiciary.  That dates with Charles I.  They include a new and avowed campaign to destroy the independence of the legislative arm.  That dates with George III.  It involves a centralization of government which invades the independence of local government.  That is one of Mr. Hitler’s successful ideas.  This devaluation of currency is a trick of Roman Emperors.  They were not known to be liberals.  These deficit financings are as old as the French Kings.  It may go back to Babylon.  You might look up the inscription at the Feast of Belshazzar…Are these Socialist enterprises of our government liberalism?  Is this Nazi dictation to labor, farmers, and business liberalism?  If this sort of stuff is liberal, then George III, Hitler, Stalin, and Boss Tweed are liberals…These are the paving stones of the dangerous road which has wrecked liberal democracies all over the world.

You can read the original post here, as this is a continuation of Hoover’s address.