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Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5) QUOTES

Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5) QUOTES

1 " Here was the author of Mein Kampf, demonstrating his thesis that the bigger the lie the easier to get it believed, and that all you have to do is to keep on saying a thing often enough and you can make it the truth. "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)

2 " I am under orders, as much so as any private in the army. The American people are my boss, and I have the job of finding out what they want, and doing it. "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)

3 " I am the leader of a party. I have only two years more as President, and I cannot take an action without thinking what will be its effect upon the party’s future; otherwise I might throw away my six years’ work, and have the humiliation of seeing a successor undo the entire New Deal. "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)

4 " The very freedom we are so proud of is their assurance of success; we are made impotent by it, and cannot imagine taking action against those who use their freedom to destroy ours. "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)

5 " Huey Long, unfortunately, had been shot; a shrewd devil, he had said: “It will be easy to bring Fascism in America. Just call it Anti-Fascism. "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)

6 " The Reichstag had two things to do: first, to hear him make a long speech, and second, to vote its endorsement of everything he had said. This vote never failed to be unanimous—since any member who presumed to voice disapproval would be sent off to a concentration camp before that afternoon’s sun had set. "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)

7 " defect in education for democracy, that the people knew so much about the politicians and so little about the men who made the politicians and paid their fares on the bandwagon. "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)

8 " He always delivered these tirades extemporaneously and had never yet been known to read a prepared speech. The "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)

9 " We grant that American citizens who have millions of dollars have a right to use them to poison the public mind; but surely we don’t have to grant the right of foreigners to come in and intrigue against us. "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)

10 " Since this press campaign must be considered as an element of danger to the peace of the people, I have decided to carry through that strengthening of the German army which will give us the assurance that these threats of war against Germany will not some day be translated into bloody force. "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)

11 " And now for a matter of five years he had been making the discovery that Adi was a man who kept no promises and had no conception of loyalty to anything but his own “intuition.” Now this Catholic steelmaster was in the position "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)

12 " in his book that you can get any lie believed if you repeat it often enough; and especially if it’s a big lie—because people will say that nobody would dare to tell one as big as that. It is no exaggeration to say that he has made Germany into a headquarters of the Lie; he has told so many and so often that nobody in his country has any means of distinguishing truth from falsehood. "

― Upton Sinclair , Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 5)