Skip to content

The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.

— Francisco Franco

Another quote →

Topics

Communism

More quotes by Francisco Franco

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.

The defense of internal peace and order constitutes the sacred mission of a nation's armed forces and that is what we have carried out.

One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism.

We strive to form a single national front against the Masonic lodges, aginst Moscow and the Marxist societies.

The defence of internal peace and order constitutes the sacred mission of a nation's armed forces and that is what we have carried out.

The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006)

All Francisco Franco quotes →

You may also like

For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Bertrand Russell Unarmed Victory (1963)

Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

Friedrich Engels Principles of Communism (1847)

Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Francisco Franco (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.