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For already the myth is being carefully built up. Hitler is to be the Messiah of organic evolution—the anti-Christ of the will to power, which is not a will to national power but a will to power per se, the liberation of the lustfully destructive from any inhibitions whatsoever.

— Dorothy Thompson Let the Record Speak (1939)

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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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