“The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.” ThinkingKindLibertyRightsSacrificeSecurityCrimeSolutionsThreatImmigrationAll KindsCommunismErasImpulseAbortionIllegalFrightenedPornographyIllegal Immigration Author:Molly Ivins
“There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.” MenTryingJusticeLibertyHe ManArgumentFellowsCommunismSettlingIrritatingQuoting Author:Mortimer Adler
“Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.” StatesIndividualLibertyDemocracyCommunismReplacedDiscretionRepressed Author:Boris Johnson
“Liberalism, communism, socialism are about denying individual liberty and creating a collective with a top down command-and-control government and economy. Conservatives are individuals and not activists at all, and so there is no such strategy to bend, shape, and form a country.” CountryIndividualLibertyEconomyStrategySocialismCommunismLiberalismActivistIndividual Liberty Author:Rush Limbaugh