Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?
Sinclair LewisThat nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
Sinclair LewisIt is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
Sinclair LewisYou've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
Sinclair Lewis