Charles Coughlin quotes

When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing. (Charles Coughlin)
The representatives of labor should have a voice in the management of the business. View quote
Charles Coughlin
We maintain that it is not only the prerogative but it is also the duty of the government to limit the amount of profits acquired by any industry. View quote
Charles Coughlin
I believe in upholding the right to private property but in controlling it for the public good. View quote
Charles Coughlin
I oppose modem capitalism because by its very nature it cannot and will not function for the common good. In fact, it is a detriment to civilization. View quote
Charles Coughlin
One thing is sure. Democracy is doomed. This is our last election. It is fascism or communism. We are at the crossroads-I take the road to fascism. View quote
Charles Coughlin
If Congress fails to back up the President in his monetary program, I predict a revolution in this country which will make the French Revolution look silly! View quote
Charles Coughlin
Roosevelt has a poor brand of Russian communism ... I think it is significant the leaders among the communists of the world never once attacked international bankers. Roosevelt will not touch that subject. View quote
Charles Coughlin
I am beginning to understand why I have been dubbed a ‘Nazi' and or a ‘fascist' by the Jewish publications in America; for practically all the 16 principles of social justice are being put into practice in Italy and Germany. View quote
Charles Coughlin
I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world's happiness. View quote
Charles Coughlin
Following this preamble, these shall be the principles of social justice towards the realization of which we must strive:... I believe that every citizen willing to work and capable of working shall receive a just, living, annual wage which will enable him both to maintain and educate his family according to the standards of American decency. (Charles Coughlin)
Let them heed the words of the President that ‘we have undertaken a new order of things.' Let them be cautious, henceforth, because only at their own personal peril will they dare obstruct the rising of this sun of social justice which will not set until the new economic system will have been perfected. View quote
Charles Coughlin
I believe that, in the present state of human society, it is advisable that the hourly wage contract should be abolished. In its stead legislation would be passed by which the laborer would receive an annual wage which would enable him to live in decently and according to the American standard. View quote
Charles Coughlin
From modern capitalism, as from a poisoned fountainhead, there flows that stream of detestable internationalism, by which the Warburgs, the Rothschilds and the Morgans dominate affairs not only in America but also in the Central Banks of Europe... It is an internationalism which cares not for the righteousness of social justice or of sound philosophy, but is willing for the protection of its private property, to become a bed-fellow with the harlot of the ages. View quote
Charles Coughlin
Nor does the concept of the Fascist or Nazi dictator appeal to the American liberty loving citizen with his traditional love for democracy and republican institutions which bar both Nazism and Fascism. View quote
Charles Coughlin