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“A liberal is a socialist who won’t admit it.”
— Warren Robbins
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“Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.”
— Sara Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control, to Sen. Howard Metzanbaum,
The National Educator, Page 3, January 1994
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“Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.”
— José Antonio Viera Gall
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“This nation couldn’t move toward socialism if its Congressional leaders didn’t believe in it.”
— Drake Raft
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“…the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone.”
— Arnold Beichmen, Fellow, Hoover Institute
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“If socialism ever earns a final epitaph, it will be this: ‘Here lies a contrivance engineered by know-it-alls and busybodies who broke eggs with abandon but never, ever created an omelet.’”
— Lawrence W. Reed, economist
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“War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.”
— Joseph Sobran
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“The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can’t tolerate a libertarian community.”
— David D. Boaz
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“Because the American system is so clearly and positively anti-socialist, few Americans are willing to admit to that political affiliation, but prefer to seek the same end of centralized and unified government power under more euphonious labels.”
— Felix Morley
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“There exists in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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