Oswald Mosley: Quotes about people

Oswald Mosley was British politician; founder of the British Union of Fascists. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“[Fascism] was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.”

Oswald Mosley

Excerpt from My Life by Oswald Mosley (1968), Ch.16.

Death , People , World

“Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.”

Oswald Mosley

Winston Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, had returned Britain to the gold standard and Mosley believed this would lead to unemployment, quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 143.

People

“If you love our country you are national, and if you love our people you are a socialist.”

Oswald Mosley

Fascists, Michael Mann, Cambridge University Press (2006) p. 7.

Love , People , Country

“A fight between several parties of the British people: Nothing of the kind! A fight between two or three big money combines, that and nothing else. Without the weight of money behind the party machines, in an electoral battle today determined purely by principle and by the number of active workers…British Union could fight and beat today the old parties over the whole electoral field. But you know and I know, the battle is nothing of the kind. The battle is between big money combines who spend a thousand pounds or more on every constituency they fight. Or when they speak democracy, they don't mean government by the people…they mean financial democracy, in which money counts and nothing but money.”

Oswald Mosley

Speech in Earls Court (July 1939). http://www.oswaldmosley.com/audio/earlscourt.m3u

Money , People , Democracy , Fight

“Living financially and economically on American charity, selling up the house to the Yanks when he won't pay any more charity out. Are you content to be occupied and protected by American aeroplanes? Are you content to be in the position of an old woman, jipped by her young relations? You who were the greatest power on earth fifty years ago, and still can be! Why do I say, 'you still can be'? Because, my friends, I know you, I know the British people! I know that twice in my lifetime in the world war I fought in, in the world war the younger men fought in. We the British have put our effort, our energy of valor, of heroism, unequalled in the history of mankind.”

Oswald Mosley

Speech on 21 Novembver, 1960. http://www.oswaldmosley.com/audio/300million.m3u

Men , War , People , World