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It is born in crisis, lives on crisis, and cannot survive the era of crisis. By the very law of its nature it must create for itself, if it is to continue, fresh crisis from year to year. Mussolini came to power in the postwar crisis and became himself a crisis in Italian life. . . . Hitler's story is the same. And our future is all charted out upon the same turbulent road of permanent crisis.

— John Thomas Flynn As We Go Marching (1944)

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

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

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