It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is…" — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Wait till Buzz takes charge of us. A real Fascist dictatorship!" "Nonsense! Nonsense!" snorted Tasbrough. "That couldn't happen here in America, not… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Why, there’s no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share
“He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share
“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share
“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?' 'What?' flatly.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years? — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share
“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share
“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share
“Author sees the "congested idealism" of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share
“The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share
