"Socialism as an alternative has disappeared from the discourse. Capitalism has won an enormous victory and all we could do was watch."
- Socialists In America Meeting, National Post, April 3, 2000
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of 'liberalism', they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing it happened."
- Norman M. Thomas, Leader U.S. Socialist Party, 1948
"Every collectivist movement rides in on a Trojan Horse of 'emergency'. It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini".
- Memoirs: The Great Depression, 1929-1941, P. 461, Herbert Hoover
"We are not going to save our way out of this recession. We've got to spend our way out of this recession."
- House Majority Whip, The Hill, February 5, 2010
"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
- Margaret Thatcher, 1976
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