Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
With the end of the cold war all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism Nazism Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is as always plotting scheming working fighting.
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion then Communism and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.
Communism like any other revealed religion is largely made up of prophecies.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption or both.
It was patriotism not communism that inspired me.
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked but it didn't.
Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government.
Communism has decided against God against Christ against the Bible and against all religion.
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
Communism is like one big phone company.
I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming really.
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy era and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger envy and death.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
With his trademark courage and conviction President Reagan led us out of the Cold War spreading his vision of freedom resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.
Almost certainly however the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.