“Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.” IfsThinkingSelfEnoughGovernmentAblePoliticalHateDiesEvilCausesPartyCreationNegativeCriminalsSocialismCommunismAppealsIndifferenceOur TimeLiberalismProtestGood EnoughFascismPacksPolitical PartiesGangstersSelf-governmentAnything GoesLive And Let LiveSpineless Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.” IfsYearsGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsLibertyEconomicsLibertarianSocialismDesertSandLibertarianismFederal GovernmentEconomistShortageChargingFree GovernmentLimiting GovernmentFederalismFunny PoliticalFree Market CapitalismSaharaDesert SandSahara Desert Author:Milton Friedman
“If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.” IfsMatterGovernmentCoursesLevelsMoneyRichEssentialsEconomicsSocialismDeceptionFraudRegulationCommodityBankingTaxationConcealedRefrainWorthlessness Book:The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe
“The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.” MenMeanUseGovernmentDifferencesPowerEconomyAuthorityEconomicsPropertyProductionsSignificantSocialismCommunismCharacteristicsOver ItFascismOwnershipFormalSuperficialPretensePrivate PropertyAbolitionSemblance Author:Ayn Rand
“Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under socialism, government officials acquire all the advantages of ownership, without any of the responsibilities, since they do not hold title to the property, but merely the right to use it -- at least until the next purge. In either case, the government officials hold the economic, political and legal power of life or death over the citizens.” UseGovernmentPoliticalNextResponsibilityCasesEconomicCitizensAdvantagePropertySocialismTitlesOfficialsAcquireFascismOwnershipLife Or DeathGovernment Officials Author:Ayn Rand
“The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.” StatesDoneUseGovernmentLawNumbersExistenceCasesPowerEssentialsSocialismDeceptionInternalsRecourse Author:Adolf Hitler
“The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.” FirstsSelfGovernmentMightDemocraticUnitySocialismTransitionBureaucracyOwing Author:Salvador Allende
“Socialisms not a word that I use. I say social democracy because I dont think the government needs to own all the means of production.” ThinkingNeedsMeanUseGovernmentSocialDemocracyProductionsSocialismSocial Democracy Author:David Cunliffe