The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature’s memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those who stand for the K.K.K. type of demagoguery.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.