Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice… - Upton Sinclair

World War victims, depression victims, psychopaths, drug addicts, perverts, criminals — they all needed Adolf a little more than Adolf needed them, and he welded them into something more powerful than themselves.

They say that the best dog will turn cross if he be kept chained all the time, and it was the same with the man; he had not a thing to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to curse everything.

He had been a reform member of the city council, he had been a Greenbacker, a Labor Unionist, a Populist, a Bryanite — and after thirty years of fighting, the year 1896 had served to convince him that the power of concentrated wealth could never be controlled, but could only be destroyed. He had published a pamphlet about it, and set out to organize a party of his own, when a stray Socialist leaflet had revealed to him that others had been ahead of him.