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• Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Crush, Rights, Liberty

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• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Gun, Men, Leader

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• In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

  David Horowitz

  Ignorance, Practice, Psychology

  David Horowitz (2016). “The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz”, p.162, Encounter Books

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• The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

  Rand Paul

  Fundamentals, Unions, Reason Why

  "Kentucky Tonight", KET, June 16, 1998.

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• How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.

  Suzanna Hupp

  Taken, Gun, Government

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• We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.

  James Cook

  Pay, Destroying, Capitalism

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• Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Presidential, Liberty, Libertarian

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• A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

  Terry Eagleton

  People, Toil, Astonishment

  Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.82, Verso

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• Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

  John Steinbeck

  Delusional, Form

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• Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Two, People, Forever

  "Carbon Chastity" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. May 30, 2008.

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• Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Order, Years

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.414, VM eBooks

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• The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Believe, Responsibility

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, Political

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.

  James Cook

  Results, Application, Capitalism

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• Socialism values equality more than liberty.

  Dennis Prager

  Equality, Eugenics, Liberty

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Weakness, Laissez Faire

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

  Lord Acton

  Execution, Accepting, Despotism

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• Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.

  Ralph Nader

  Capitalism

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• Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

  Ronald Reagan

  Party, Names, People

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society.

  Karl Popper

  Beautiful, Dream, Simple

  "The Lesson of this Century: With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State".

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• There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Men, Hands

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• What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

  Leonard Read

  Names, Disease, Causes

  Leonard E. Read (1990). “The freedom philosophy”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• Margaret Thatcher said,you know the problem with socialism is that eventually it will run out of other people's money. And she was absolutely right.

  Jedediah Bila

  Running, People, Problem

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

  Herbert Spencer

  Desire, Slavery, Coercion

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.37, VM eBooks

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• Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Voice, Mind, Trying

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.465, VM eBooks

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