Soviet Quotes - Page 32

• Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail.

  Newt Gingrich

  Challenges, President, Momentum

  "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. January 26, 2012.

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• It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Evil, Important, Empires

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

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• In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, Two, Differences

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

  Henry L. Stimson

  War, People, World

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• That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all, the privileges of the politicians are far greater compared with the ordinary folk than in any other country. The nations that have gone for freedom, justice and independence of people have still freedom and justice, and they have far more equality between their people, far more respect for each individual than the other nations. Go my way. You will get freedom and justice and much less difference between people than you do in the Soviet Union.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Differences, Justice

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• The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe.

  Sergei Korolev

  Unions, Soviet Union, Star Gazing

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• I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

  Ayn Rand

  School, Men, Russia

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• Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.

  Enoch Powell

  Crazy, Self, Order

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• Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, America, Russia

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.143, Penguin

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