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No citizen should be permitted to become a member of or contribute to any organization whose members are pledged, or have ever been pledged, to tender prior loyalty to any state other than the United States, or to defend any state other than the United States in case of war, except as in such a war the United States might formally be allied with another power.

— Dorothy Thompson The Truth about Communism (1948)

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

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)

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