It Can't Happen Here Quotes

"Why are you so afraid of the word Fascism,' Doremus? Just a word"just a word!

And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours"not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini"like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days"and have em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again.

Nother words, have a doctor who won't take any back-chat, but really boss the patient and make him get well whether he likes it or not!"

- Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store.

Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill."

- Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

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