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• Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Liberty, Doctrine

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.465, Penguin

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• Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing.

  Leonard Read

  Egalitarianism, Labels, Nazism

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• To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Sacrifice, Individualism, Socialist

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• I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Mean, Equality

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• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Inspirational, Humor, Government

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• It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Government, People

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.

  Roger Ailes

  Philosophy, Fighting, Communism

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• To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1929.

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  Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Horse, Business

  The Economist, July 6, 2012.

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• True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

  Herbert Hoover

  Deny, Creeds, Liberalism

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

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• I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Gold, Individual

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120”, p.309, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Differences, Doe

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.397, Knopf

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• I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Spirit, Bases

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.286, Routledge

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• Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

  Earl Warren

  Eugenics, Government, People

  Address to National Press Club in Washington DC. Freedom and Union magazine, April 1952.

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• The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families.

  Star Parker

  School, Cities, Broken

  Star Parker (2015). “Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America”, p.6, Sumner Books

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• I want to submit to you tonight that this country is not gospel-hardened; it is gospel-ignorant because most of its preachers are. And let me repeat this: the malady in this country is not liberal politicians, the root of socialism, Hollywood, or anything else; it is the so-called evangelical pastor, preacher, and evangelist of our day. That is where the malady is to be found.

  Paul Washer

  Country, Roots, Ignorant

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• Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.

  Theodore Beale

  Stupid, Mirrors, Modern

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• They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Afterlife, Causes

  RONALD REAGAN: (1984). “A MAN TRUE TO HIS WORD”

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• A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

  Milton Friedman

  Liberty, Principles, Coercion

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• I think the thing about capitalism is it's an evil necessity, capitalism. Communism has been tried and failed, and socialism, that doesn't work very well. Capitalism works, but the problem about capitalism is it does mean that a few individuals become very wealthy. Therefore, I think those individuals have enormous responsibility to redistribute that wealth either by creating new businesses or creating new jobs and making sure that money just doesn't lie in a bank account for future generations.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Lying, Mean

  "George Negus interviews CEO and founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. April 2, 2008.

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• I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Money, Women, Order

  Statement to the Court, delivered 14 [or 18] September 1918, Federal Court of Cleveland, Ohio

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• All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Waiting, Pay

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Differences, Liberty

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.409, VM eBooks

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• I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

  Albert Einstein

  Educational, Socialist Economy, Evil

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• [Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

  Ronald Reagan

  Writing, Reform, Care

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