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Sinclair Lewis Quote: “For even with an army of slaves, it was necessary to persuade them that they were freemen and fighters for the principle of freedom, or otherwise the scoundrels might cross over and join the enemy!”

251. “For even with an army of slaves, it was necessary to persuade them that they were freemen and fighters for the principle of freedom, or otherwise the scoundrels might cross over and join the enemy!”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “It is composed of females who spend one half their waking hours boasting of being descended from the seditious American colonists of 1776, and the other and more ardent half in attacking all contemporaries who believe in precisely the principles for which those ancestors.”

252. “It is composed of females who spend one half their waking hours boasting of being descended from the seditious American colonists of 1776, and the other and more ardent half in attacking all contemporaries who believe in precisely the principles for which those ancestors.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Yet all this while the power of thought, the pull of conscience, were feeble beside Alverna’s youth. It was his first love; the first time in his life that he had been roused to through away caution and dignity.”

253. “Yet all this while the power of thought, the pull of conscience, were feeble beside Alverna’s youth. It was his first love; the first time in his life that he had been roused to through away caution and dignity.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I wonder if the small town isn’t, with some lovely exceptions, a social appendix?”

254. “I wonder if the small town isn’t, with some lovely exceptions, a social appendix?”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility.”

255. “The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “With all his amateurish fumbling, Martin had one characteristic without which there can be no science: a wide-ranging, sniffing, snuffling, undignified, unselfdramatizing curiosity, and it drove him on.”

256. “With all his amateurish fumbling, Martin had one characteristic without which there can be no science: a wide-ranging, sniffing, snuffling, undignified, unselfdramatizing curiosity, and it drove him on.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “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.”

257. “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.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists rarely see anything but contentment in a crushed population. Waiting, and its brother death, seem so contented.”

258. “Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists rarely see anything but contentment in a crushed population. Waiting, and its brother death, seem so contented.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “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.”

259. “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.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “To be “intellectual” or “artistic” or, in their own word, to be “highbrow,” is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.”

260. “To be “intellectual” or “artistic” or, in their own word, to be “highbrow,” is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “I don’t mean to say we’re perfect. We’ve got a lot to do in the way of extending the paving of motor boulevards, for, believe me, it’s the fellow with four to ten thousand a year, say, and an automobile and a nice little family in a bungalow on the edge of town, that makes the wheels of progress go round!”

261. “I don’t mean to say we’re perfect. We’ve got a lot to do in the way of extending the paving of motor boulevards, for, believe me, it’s the fellow with four to ten thousand a year, say, and an automobile and a nice little family in a bungalow on the edge of town, that makes the wheels of progress go round!”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “The gospel crew could never consider their converts as human beings, like waiters or manicurists or brakemen, but they had in them such a professional interest as surgeons take in patients, critics in an author, fishermen in trout.”

262. “The gospel crew could never consider their converts as human beings, like waiters or manicurists or brakemen, but they had in them such a professional interest as surgeons take in patients, critics in an author, fishermen in trout.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Women, she pointed out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in 1919 she could have saved them all this trouble. No. Certainly not. No votes.”

263. “Women, she pointed out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in 1919 she could have saved them all this trouble. No. Certainly not. No votes.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “This was infuriating, because none of their rights as American citizens was better established, or more often used, than the privilege of being ill.”

264. “This was infuriating, because none of their rights as American citizens was better established, or more often used, than the privilege of being ill.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota.”

265. “Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “You see, we don’t like murder as a way of argument – that’s what really marks the Liberal!”

266. “You see, we don’t like murder as a way of argument – that’s what really marks the Liberal!”

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Sinclair Lewis Quote: “It was Father Charles Coughlin, of Detroit, who had first thought out the device of freeing himself from any censorship of his political sermons on the Mount by “buying his own time on the air” – it being only in the twentieth century that mankind has been able to buy Time as it buys soap and gasoline. This invention was almost equal, in its effect on all American life and thought, to Henry Ford’s early conception of selling cars cheap to millions of people, instead of selling a few as luxuries.”

267. “It was Father Charles Coughlin, of Detroit, who had first thought out the device of freeing himself from any censorship of his political sermons on the Mount by “buying his own time on the air” – it being only in the twentieth century that mankind has been able to buy Time as it buys soap and gasoline. This invention was almost equal, in its effect on all American life and thought, to Henry Ford’s early conception of selling cars cheap to millions of people, instead of selling a few as luxuries.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Manhattan peasants. Kind people, industrious people, generous to their aged, eager to find any desperate cure for the sickness of worry over losing the job. Most facile material for any rabble-rouser.”

268. “Manhattan peasants. Kind people, industrious people, generous to their aged, eager to find any desperate cure for the sickness of worry over losing the job. Most facile material for any rabble-rouser.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Lewis was an extremely cold, stern, and business-minded man.”

269. “Lewis was an extremely cold, stern, and business-minded man.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “For the first time in America, except during the Civil War and the World War, people were afraid to say whatever came to their tongues.”

270. “For the first time in America, except during the Civil War and the World War, people were afraid to say whatever came to their tongues.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “Oh, well, Doremus reflected, he had lived with Emma for thirty-four years, and not oftener than once or twice a year had he wanted to murder her.”

271. “Oh, well, Doremus reflected, he had lived with Emma for thirty-four years, and not oftener than once or twice a year had he wanted to murder her.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly.”

272. “She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “With the loneliness of one who has put away a possible love Carol saw that he was a stranger. She saw that he had never been anything but a frame on which she had hung shining garments.”

273. “With the loneliness of one who has put away a possible love Carol saw that he was a stranger. She saw that he had never been anything but a frame on which she had hung shining garments.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quote: “But the bird’s trilling, the dependable presence of Foolish, comforted Doremus, made military drill and belching politicians seem unimportant and in security he dropped asleep in the worn brown leather chair.”

274. “But the bird’s trilling, the dependable presence of Foolish, comforted Doremus, made military drill and belching politicians seem unimportant and in security he dropped asleep in the worn brown leather chair.”

— Sinclair Lewis

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