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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 35.

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It isn't what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class.

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 20.

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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 17.

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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!

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 2.

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Why, America’s the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country’s too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn’t happen here!

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 5.

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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever.

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