“The time is past when the notion of economic self-seeking and unrestricted use of profits made can be allowed to dominate…. The economic system must serve the nation.”
This could have been written in any editorial recently, and certainly a similar sentiment was spouted on Capitol Hill in the past weeks. But it is a quote of the Nazi Minister of Economics in the book The Omnious Parallels.
With the economic controls and the sacrifice of individual rights to the nation, we are putting a motor on our drift from freedom to fascism.