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Socialism was not the socialization of losses and the privatization of profits.

— Jacques Delors

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The social and human balance of our societies depend on the farming world.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

Politicians who attack the dream of a federal Europe are racist bigots intent on undermining the Continent's freedom and peace.

I have a passion for reform, for the progress of man and society. I cannot stand the feeling of being useless.

He thinks I am the man of the past but I am still here. He is the man of the past.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.

George Orwell

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