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Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government…
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No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,…
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The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed…
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At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in…
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But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.
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Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
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Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.
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I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which…
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The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor…
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The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of…
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When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh…
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated…
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No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,…
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Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid…
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Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth…
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Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
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There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is…
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I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.
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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,…
— Leo Rosten
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Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa,…
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