Clarence Darrow attacks the New Deal

1933

"First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world." - Darrow

"I see today that the spirit of human freedom has vanished from the peoples of this world especially from America! We have forgotten it. We care nothing about. If we can make money by compelling people to do certain things by law, or if some fool reformers think they can save the souls of men by passing laws, we say: let them do it. We would not fight for liberty today; we have
forgotten it." -Darrow

"Establish freedom and open competition in everything, and all forms of trade and enterprise, all relations of men to each other, tend to become healthy and vigorous, pure and clean. The better and more efficient forms--as they do throughout nature's world--slowly displacing the inefficient forms...Such is the universal law of progress, which prevails in everything, so long as we allow the free open fight between all good and evil."-Auberon Herbert

"Those people who claim they are sensitive are the ones who have caused the poor and minorities to stay where they are. I am an intransigent believer that the liberal programs ostensibly set up to help the poor guarantee that the poor will stay where they are." - John Ashbrook

"The emotion behind the desire to lead one's own life is hope. The emotion behind the desire to be cared for is fear. Fear of personal failure drives the individual backwards and recreates the desire for security through obedience; hope drives the individual forward and creates the adult desire for self-determination. That is why the Communists always seek to create fear and destroy hope among the people they seek to dominate." - Fred G. Clark

When Harry Hopkins, who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's right-hand man, and in many ways his mentor, was asked what his formula was for keeping the New Deal in power, he said:—"We'll tax and tax and spend and spend and elect and elect." When asked as to how long the people would stand for it, he replied, "The people are too damned dumb to know what is going on."

"There seems no inherent obstacle to the gradual advance of socialism in the United States through a series of New Deals." Schlesinger

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[hartforest]

@whole27 I know, defending another perspective other than gov't mandated indoctrination and acting as a defense attorney in this country...what a disgrace! And the gall to have business without FDR's pro-fascist policies hanging over them...the gall...the gall...He should have been in favor of Scopes, Leopold/Loeb shot w/o trial as well as all dissenters of FDR who was a great man for his creating a depression within a depression (1937). He should have licked the boot...

[VictorLepanto]

Of course the NRA was monopolistic, it was avowedly modelled on Mussollini's corporatism. That is, people will be allowed to run "private" enterprises if they are useful to the agrandisement of the state's power. Only enterprises that state thinks are useful will be allowed to exist. FDR was nasty piece of work underneath all the populist posturing.

[ElJefer]

The real tragedy is not that FDR used Keynesian economics to kick-start the economy (whether it was required or not is not clear), but that when the economy prospered again, all those central planning programs remained, eating away at the free market

[shkeni]

Of course Clarence Darrow would speak against it; while what FDR did was good in the long run, he ramrodded it through a legal system that would never have allowed him to do it had he bowed to it. It's a complex legacy.

[gaglir]

Yeah I'm drunk, so what?

[whole27]

wow, hearing his real voice....he sounds dumber than his legend that precedes him.

[kurtisblow3000]

I suggest you read mr darrow's argument in the case of the communist labor party. segmented on google books.