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The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.


Henry A. Wallace

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WALLACE STEVENS I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. Th...
WALLACE STEVENS All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to...
LEW WALLACE Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
WALLACE STEGNER The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White Hous...
NICOLLE WALLACE To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece...
WILLIAM WALLACE When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
MIKE WALLACE It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta...
NICOLLE WALLACE To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ...
MIKE WALLACE Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt...
NICOLLE WALLACE I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her bl...
NICOLLE WALLACE We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fan...
GEORGE WALLACE There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One...
CARLOS WALLACE People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No...
CARLOS WALLACE Insecurity is a powerful enemy. It forces people to use make-up, plastic surgery, collagen injection...
CARLOS WALLACE Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.
CARLOS WALLACE I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art...
WALLACE SHAWN