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"When a nation has definitely committed itself to a foreign war," insisted legal scholar John Henry Wigmore during World War I, "all principles of normal internal order may be suspended."
In an August 7, 1918 speech, War Industries Board Chairman Bernard Baruch was astonishingly frank in expressing the same view. "Every man's life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man's property," insisted Baruch. "We are living today in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state."
Similar totalitarian cadences worked their way into the July 19, 1940 speech ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The one-party state: the Republican National Convention demonstrated...