John Thomas Flynn Quotes

“Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people. It is an assertion of stark, bold aggression.”

John Thomas Flynn

Source: As We Go Marching (1944), p. 213

“The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.”

John Thomas Flynn

Source: As We Go Marching (1944), p. 222

“Military men, when confronted with the mutterings of disaffected taxpayers, always pointed out how good these government military expenditures were for business.”

John Thomas Flynn

Source: As We Go Marching (1944), p. 104

“But when the socialist and, even more, the syndicalist, began to propose his nostrums as medicine for the capitalist system, there appeared a diseased and corrupted form of socialism which found its neophytes in the oddest quarters.”

John Thomas Flynn

Source: As We Go Marching (1944), p. 111

“Probably one of the most completely misunderstood of all modern institutions is militarism. While military organizations take their origin in man's lust for war, militarism is something more than a mere war machine. By militarism I mean that institution in which the nation maintains large national armies and navies in time of peace, usually raised on the principle of conscription.”

John Thomas Flynn

Source: As We Go Marching (1944), p. 98-99

“Fascism is a leftist product—a corrupt and diseased offshoot of leftist agitation.”

John Thomas Flynn

Source: As We Go Marching (1944), p. 68