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No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship.

— Dorothy Thompson

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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

Let the Record Speak (1939)

Unity, in Fascist terms, means uniformity; freedom of conscience means insubordination; co-ordination means coercion.

Let the Record Speak (1939)

Patriotism is the cheapest form of self-exaltation.

I Saw Hitler (1932)

A slave has no morality, because he cannot choose between good and evil. He has only a derivative morality—that of his masters.

Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)

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