When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
SINCLAIR LEWISThe trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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