"Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean—power over people, power to the State." - Margaret Thatcher

"How do you tell if someone is a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell if someone is an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." -Ronald Reagan

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

"If Socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists." - Friedrich Hayek