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* " The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the

trouble with Christianity is the Christians "

–Henry Louis Mencken

 

* " In Germany, [the Nazis] first came for the Communists, and I

did not speak up, because I was not a Communist. Then they came for

the Jews, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Jew. Then they

came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak up, because I was

not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I did not

speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me – and by

that time no one was left to speak up. "

–Martin Niemoller

 

* " 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. "

–Serj Tankian

 

* " We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. ... The most alarming

spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an

unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to

accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call

anybody they don't like a Communist. "

–E. B. White

 

* " As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are

secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free

press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a

Red, that man is a Communist.' You never hear a real American talk

like that. "

–Frank Hague (1896 - 1956), mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey

 

* " The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are

filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to

destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might, and the

Republic is in danger. Yes - danger from within and without. We need

law and order! Without it our nation cannot survive. "

–Adolf Hitler

 

" Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted

by war or corruption, or both. "

–John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

" At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism

and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains

amazingly persistent. "

–Joseph Sobran

 

 

* " Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American

people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It

comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to

trust bureaucracies rather than people. "

–George H. Allen

 

* " When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask

why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. "

–Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop