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"The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power."
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"The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny."

"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way."

"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."

"It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice."

"A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end."

"In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself."

"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."

"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States."

"Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends."

"If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people."
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