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Socialism almost never has been judged as a goal in value by the experience of communism in power.

— Alan Charles Kors Socialism's Legacy (2011)

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If someone tells you you are too weak to live with freedom, they have turned you into a child.

College (2005)

Socialism is easily understood by any child; it is taking other people's stuff.

Socialism's Legacy (2011)

You can't say to people, you're too weak to live with freedom, only that group is strong enough to live with freedom.

Who's too Weak to Live with Freedom? (2013)

Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age.

Socialism's Legacy (2011)

I think it's almost impossible to impose a free and liberal society from the outside.

Socialism's Legacy (2011)

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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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