It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

defending the Capitol against barbarian hordes,

the unusual spiritedness and color of their attacks upon him, kept his name alive in every column.

had been chosen “not by the brains and hearts of genuine Democrats but by their temporarily crazed emotions.”

nothing so elevates a dispossessed farmer or a factory worker on relief as to have some race, any race, on which he can look down;

I tell you, an honest man gets sick when he hears the word ‘Liberty’ today, after what the Republicans did to it!