"Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction."

-- Richard Ebeling

#Country Quotes #America Quotes #Socialist Countries Quotes

“Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.”
“There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.”
“The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.”
“When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.153, Broadview Press
“I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.”
“You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.”
“I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.”
“We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.”

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