Coexistence [with communism] is a contradiction of terms because it means trying to coexist with world conquest, which is impossible.
Communist morals follow a simple formula. Anything which promotes the communist cause is good; anything which hinders it is bad.
Fighting communism, socialism, and the subversion of constitutional government is everybody’s job. And working for the expansion of freedom is everybody’s job.
Free peoples require alert, aggressive leadership and a socially and politically conscious citizenry. This is not easily maintained, but it is the price of freedom.
Freedom can move in only one direction at a time. If a man [spends ten dollars] on a night of celebration he has thereby lost the freedom to spend that same ten dollars on some new clothes. Once the choice is made, a person is not free to avoid the consequences....
If America's wealth were spread around the world it would soon be dissipated, but if her system of free government and free enterprise were spread around the world, nations would soon find them to be perpetual producers of wealth.
It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world.
Middle-class values...are represented by the constitutional concepts of limited government, states rights, rights of property, a competitive economy, [solving] problems on the local level if possible and...with a minimal of government meddling.
One must resist [communism] or be conquered.
Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. Power coming from wealth tends to create an appetite for political power and visa versa.
Remind professional pacifists who have accepted the paralyzing peace propaganda of the communists that the same Jesus who taught "love thy enemy" never advocated surrendering to him.
The modern student of history and economics will have little difficulty discovering for himself where communist theory departs from the most elementary aspects of reality.
The voter finds himself enduring one party long enough to witness a whole series of travesties and then switches to the other party thinking he will get a substantial reversal of policy. But he doesn't.
When you run across dedicated socialists, remember that the only difference between a socialist and a communist is in the method of takeover. The desire to seize monolithic control of society is the same in both.
[A famous banker said], 'We never fight the people we trade with.' I thought to myself, 'Well, we certainly had to fight Japan in spite of all the oil and scrap iron we sold her just before World War II.' It did not seem possible that [he could forget] such an elementary lesson so quickly.
