I find this quote or a variant at numerous extreme right wing internet sites. Is it verifiable and legitimate? I have read some about Thomas and some of his actual words and I find this quotation questionable. Perhaps if he did make this remark, the context would be interesting. Can you help?

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." -- Norman Thomas, Socialist Party Presidential Candidate in 1940, 1944 and 1948, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).