Sinclair Lewis Quotes

“Why, America’s the only free nation on earth ... No, no! Couldn’t happen here!”

“There is no Solution! There will never be a state of society anything like perfect!”

“I tell you, my friends, the trouble with this whole country is that so many are selfish! Here’s a hundred and twenty million people, with 95 percent of ‘em only thinking of self, instead of turning to and helping the responsible business men to bring back prosperity!”

“We’ve got to base our future actions not on some desired Utopia but on what we have.”

“All dictators followed the same routine of torture, as if they had all read the manual of sadistic etiquette.”

“For the first time in all history, a great nation must go on arming itself more and more, not for conquest- not for jealousy- not for war- but for peace!”