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"They embodied everything crude and despicable that our parents had hoped to leave behind, a long with their childhood pennilessness, in the Third Ward slums, and yet here were our demons got up as our guardians, each with a loaded revolver strapped to his calf..."

"I cannot accept that the religious intolerance emanating from the White House has already so corrupted the ordinary citizen that he has lost all respect for fellow Americans of a creed or faith different from his own."

"They live in a dream, we live in a nightmare."

"America wasn't a fascist country and wasn't going to be...There was a new president and a new Congress but each was bound to follow the law as set down in the Constitution.They were Republican, they were isolationist, and among them, yes, there were anti-Semites—as indeed there were among the southerners in FDR's own party—but that was a long way from their being Nazis."

"My intention in running for the presidency...is to preserve American democracy by preventing America from taking part in another world war. Your choice is simple. It's not between Charles A. Lindbergh and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It's between Lindbergh and war."