Vladimir Lenin (Yes, a socialist)- The way to take over a country is to debauch the currency. Through a continuous policy of inflation a government can quietly and unobservedly confiscate the wealth of its citizens.
Calvin Coolidge - The Nation who forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.
Paul McCracken on Public Debt-If we carry the arithmetic of projected savings and probable financing in '75 to its logical end we arrive at the interesting conclusion that the savings stream might well fall some short of what will then be required for financing.
THOMAS JEFFERSON - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and what never will be.
John Stuart Mill & Daniel Webster-If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint stock companies, the universities , and the family charities were all of them branches of the government. If the empires of all these different enterprises were appointed and paid by the government, and looked to the government for every rise in life; not all the freedom of the press and popular constitution of the legislature would make this or any other country free otherwise than in name.
Alexis De Tocqueville - The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. Edmund Burke on The Threat of Socialism-A perfect equality will indeed be produced; that is to say, equal want, equal wretchedness, equal beggary, and on the part of the partitioners, a woeful, helpless, and desperate disappointment. Such is the event of all compulsory equalizations. They pull down what is above. They never raise what is below: and they depress high and low together beneath the level of what was originally the lowest. WINSTON CHURCHILL
#1Socialism is the philosophy of the failure, the creed of ignorance, the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of its misery.
#2The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings while the inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
#3 (On The Labor Party Prog. 1945) I do not believe in the power of the state to plan and enforce. No matter how numerous are the committees they set up, or the ever growing hordes of officials they employ, or the severity of the punishments they inflict or threaten, they cannot approach the high level of internal economic production achieved under free enterprise. Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite processes of good housekeeping and personal ingenuity, these constitute the life of a free society, It is this vital creative impulse that I deeply fear the ... Woodrow Wilson
Liberty has never come from government. The history of liberty is the history of limitation of government power not the increase of it. Thomas Macaulay(British secretary of war)-Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by confining themselves to their own legitimate duties-by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment; by diminishing the price of law, by maintaining peace, by defending property and observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let government do this-the people will assuredly do the rest.
Daniel Webster - Hold on my friends to the Constitution of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster. What has happened once in 6000 years may never happen again. Hold on to your constitution for if the constitution shall fall there will be anarchy throughout the world.
George Bernard Shaw- Socialism means equality of income or nothing. Under Socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had no character or industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner, but while you were permitted to live you would have to live well. Frederic Bastiat Addressing National Assembly-France,12/12/1849 -Heavy government expenditures and liberty are incompatible. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state. Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity- all vanish.
1927, Rev. Rauschenbusch "New Leader", Official Socialist Paper- The American people will never knowingly stage a revolution to bring about socialism. So we should promote the idea of increased government control of business & having Socialists get government jobs. One man in government with his eyes and ears open can do more than a hundred men on the outside. They must work to promote more government control of banks, rail roads and other businesses; to start a program of government control of electric power and work for political control and management of all key industries. (It didn't bother the Reverend that people who wouldn't knowingly vote for Socialism should have it forced on them). Samuel Gompers Last Speech Before Labor Convention- There may be here and there a worker who does not join a union of labor. That is his right no matter how wrong we think he might be. It is his legal right and no one can dare question his legal exercise of that right. Vladimir Lenin
Go to youth, form fighting squads at once everywhere. Let groups be at once organised of three, 10, 30, etc, persons. Let them arm themselves at once as best they can, be it with a revolver, a knife, a rag soaked in kerosene for starting fires. Do not make membership in the party an absolute condition. That would be an absurd demand for an armed uprising. You must proceed with propaganda on a wide scale. Propagandists must supply each group with a brief and simple recipe for making bombs. Squads must begin military training. Some must undertake to kill, to spy or blow up police stations, others to raid the bank to confiscate money for the insurrection.
#2 Be prepared to resort to every illegal device to conceal the truth-It would not matter if 3/4 of the human race perished; the important thing is that the remaining 1/4 be communist.
#3 The communist party enters into Bourgeois institutes not to do constructive work but in order to direct the masses to destroy from within the whole Bourgeois state machine and the parliament itself. Joseph Stalin
Words must have no relation to actions, otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, action another. Good words are a mask for concealment of deeds. Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. Nikita Khrushchev
Despite the difference between the stages of communism and socialism no wall of any kind exists between them... communism grows from socialism and its direct continuation.
Communist Party U.S.A. Oath, 1930 - I pledge myself to rally the masses to defend the Soviet U., the land of victorious socialism. I pledge myself to remain at all times a vigilant and firm defender of the Leninist line of the party, the only line that insures the triumph of Soviet power in the U.S. Nazi Party on What Should Be Party Platform -Demand that the state shall make one of its chief duties to provide work and means of livelihood for citizens. The activities of the individual must not clash with the interests of the whole but must be pursued within the framework of the National activity and must be for the general good. Demand therefore abolition of incomes unearned by work and emancipation from interest charges. Confiscation of all war profits. Nationalization of all business trusts. Great industries shall be organization on a profit sharing basis. The extensive development of provision for old age. and education facilities for specially gifted children of poor parents at the expense of the state. Our Nation can only achieve permanent well being from within on the principles of common interest before self interest. Mussolini - We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become. Letter From a Young American Socialist to Friend Around 1968 - It is my life, my business, my religion my hobby, my bread and meat. I have already been in jail because of my ideas and if necessary I am ready to go before a firing squad. We have a cause to fight for-a definite purpose in life. We have a morale an espirit de corps such as no capitalist army ever had-a devotion to our cause that no religious order can touch. Anonymous- We must pay a price for freedom but whatever the price is it's only half the cost of doing without it. John F. Kennedy - The scarlet thread running through the thought and actions of people all over the world is the delegation of great problems to the all-absorbing leviathan-the state...Every time that we try to lift a problem to the government. to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of the people. Herbert Aptheker, "Daily World," Communist Paper - This capitalism - this system born of the slave trade and centuries of slavery child labor and the abuse of women, of contempt for those who labor and produce, with its adornments of male supremacy and elitism and racism and its products of colonialism and robber wars - this capitalism, through its politicians and its pen men, dares to lecture the world of socialism about morality and human rights. This...
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Calvin Coolidge - The Nation who forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.
Paul McCracken on Public Debt-If we carry the arithmetic of projected savings and probable financing in '75 to its logical end we arrive at the interesting conclusion that the savings stream might well fall some short of what will then be required for financing.
THOMAS JEFFERSON - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and what never will be.
John Stuart Mill & Daniel Webster-If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint stock companies, the universities , and the family charities were all of them branches of the government. If the empires of all these different enterprises were appointed and paid by the government, and looked to the government for every rise in life; not all the freedom of the press and popular constitution of the legislature would make this or any other country free otherwise than in name.
Alexis De Tocqueville - The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. Edmund Burke on The Threat of Socialism-A perfect equality will indeed be produced; that is to say, equal want, equal wretchedness, equal beggary, and on the part of the partitioners, a woeful, helpless, and desperate disappointment. Such is the event of all compulsory equalizations. They pull down what is above. They never raise what is below: and they depress high and low together beneath the level of what was originally the lowest. WINSTON CHURCHILL
#1Socialism is the philosophy of the failure, the creed of ignorance, the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of its misery.
#2The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings while the inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
#3 (On The Labor Party Prog. 1945) I do not believe in the power of the state to plan and enforce. No matter how numerous are the committees they set up, or the ever growing hordes of officials they employ, or the severity of the punishments they inflict or threaten, they cannot approach the high level of internal economic production achieved under free enterprise. Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite processes of good housekeeping and personal ingenuity, these constitute the life of a free society, It is this vital creative impulse that I deeply fear the ... Woodrow Wilson
Liberty has never come from government. The history of liberty is the history of limitation of government power not the increase of it. Thomas Macaulay(British secretary of war)-Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by confining themselves to their own legitimate duties-by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment; by diminishing the price of law, by maintaining peace, by defending property and observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let government do this-the people will assuredly do the rest.
Daniel Webster - Hold on my friends to the Constitution of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster. What has happened once in 6000 years may never happen again. Hold on to your constitution for if the constitution shall fall there will be anarchy throughout the world.
George Bernard Shaw- Socialism means equality of income or nothing. Under Socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had no character or industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner, but while you were permitted to live you would have to live well. Frederic Bastiat Addressing National Assembly-France,12/12/1849 -Heavy government expenditures and liberty are incompatible. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state. Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity- all vanish.
1927, Rev. Rauschenbusch "New Leader", Official Socialist Paper- The American people will never knowingly stage a revolution to bring about socialism. So we should promote the idea of increased government control of business & having Socialists get government jobs. One man in government with his eyes and ears open can do more than a hundred men on the outside. They must work to promote more government control of banks, rail roads and other businesses; to start a program of government control of electric power and work for political control and management of all key industries. (It didn't bother the Reverend that people who wouldn't knowingly vote for Socialism should have it forced on them). Samuel Gompers Last Speech Before Labor Convention- There may be here and there a worker who does not join a union of labor. That is his right no matter how wrong we think he might be. It is his legal right and no one can dare question his legal exercise of that right. Vladimir Lenin
Go to youth, form fighting squads at once everywhere. Let groups be at once organised of three, 10, 30, etc, persons. Let them arm themselves at once as best they can, be it with a revolver, a knife, a rag soaked in kerosene for starting fires. Do not make membership in the party an absolute condition. That would be an absurd demand for an armed uprising. You must proceed with propaganda on a wide scale. Propagandists must supply each group with a brief and simple recipe for making bombs. Squads must begin military training. Some must undertake to kill, to spy or blow up police stations, others to raid the bank to confiscate money for the insurrection.
#2 Be prepared to resort to every illegal device to conceal the truth-It would not matter if 3/4 of the human race perished; the important thing is that the remaining 1/4 be communist.
#3 The communist party enters into Bourgeois institutes not to do constructive work but in order to direct the masses to destroy from within the whole Bourgeois state machine and the parliament itself. Joseph Stalin
Words must have no relation to actions, otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, action another. Good words are a mask for concealment of deeds. Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. Nikita Khrushchev
Despite the difference between the stages of communism and socialism no wall of any kind exists between them... communism grows from socialism and its direct continuation.
Communist Party U.S.A. Oath, 1930 - I pledge myself to rally the masses to defend the Soviet U., the land of victorious socialism. I pledge myself to remain at all times a vigilant and firm defender of the Leninist line of the party, the only line that insures the triumph of Soviet power in the U.S. Nazi Party on What Should Be Party Platform -Demand that the state shall make one of its chief duties to provide work and means of livelihood for citizens. The activities of the individual must not clash with the interests of the whole but must be pursued within the framework of the National activity and must be for the general good. Demand therefore abolition of incomes unearned by work and emancipation from interest charges. Confiscation of all war profits. Nationalization of all business trusts. Great industries shall be organization on a profit sharing basis. The extensive development of provision for old age. and education facilities for specially gifted children of poor parents at the expense of the state. Our Nation can only achieve permanent well being from within on the principles of common interest before self interest. Mussolini - We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become. Letter From a Young American Socialist to Friend Around 1968 - It is my life, my business, my religion my hobby, my bread and meat. I have already been in jail because of my ideas and if necessary I am ready to go before a firing squad. We have a cause to fight for-a definite purpose in life. We have a morale an espirit de corps such as no capitalist army ever had-a devotion to our cause that no religious order can touch. Anonymous- We must pay a price for freedom but whatever the price is it's only half the cost of doing without it. John F. Kennedy - The scarlet thread running through the thought and actions of people all over the world is the delegation of great problems to the all-absorbing leviathan-the state...Every time that we try to lift a problem to the government. to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of the people. Herbert Aptheker, "Daily World," Communist Paper - This capitalism - this system born of the slave trade and centuries of slavery child labor and the abuse of women, of contempt for those who labor and produce, with its adornments of male supremacy and elitism and racism and its products of colonialism and robber wars - this capitalism, through its politicians and its pen men, dares to lecture the world of socialism about morality and human rights. This...
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