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It can never be done in a society of free men where criticism cannot be silenced and where compliance cannot be enforced.

— John Thomas Flynn The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution (1949)

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Fascism is a leftist product—a corrupt and diseased offshoot of leftist agitation.

As We Go Marching (1944)

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is a war.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people. It is an assertion of stark, bold aggression.

As We Go Marching (1944)

Military men, when confronted with the mutterings of disaffected taxpayers, always pointed out how good these government military expenditures were for business.

As We Go Marching (1944)

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship. Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

Benedict of Nursia

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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