The Case Against Socialism Quotes

“Today's left would have us forget that the pseudo-science of eugenics was once all the rage among socialists.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Our founders believed that “government is best that governs least” because the bigger government becomes, the more that control, and potentially violence, is necessary to exert government edicts.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Conservatives point out the shortages, food lines, and outright famines in Venezuela, Stalin’s Russia, and Mao’s China, while American socialists stubbornly cling to the only “socialist” model left that has any claim to success—Scandinavia. Unfortunately for them, the so-called socialist success of Scandinavia is, in fact, due to good old-fashioned private property and capitalism!”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“You can excuse these socialists all you want as "men and women of their times". But never forget that they were socialists and that they saw state planning of the family as no different than state planning of the economy or a rancher's planning for his cattle breeding.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“what makes America unique is that for the first time an entire country based its economy on merit, not heredity.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Let’s hope today’s American socialists will realize that violence is not an aberration but a necessary tool if you want a society made “equal” by redistribution of wealth and property.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“The famine was no accident. When ownership is collectivized, the incentive to work harder, to be more productive evaporates.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“In the United States, the top 1 percent of income earners pays nearly 40 percent of the total income tax revenue, and the top 10 percent pays almost 70 percent. Meanwhile the bottom 50 percent of taxpayers paid only 3 percent of federal income tax in 2016. When today’s socialists claim the rich aren’t paying their fair share they are ignoring the facts.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“The idea of ethnic cleansing was orthodox socialism for a century and more.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Unless you imagine a voluntary revolution where all owners of industry or commerce give up their wealth to the state, you have to acknowledge that state ownership of the means of production can only occur at the end of a truncheon.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Socialism also crushes the spirit of work and entrepreneurship.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Big Pharma’s profits expanded greatly under Obamacare, something progressives hate to admit.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Despite the promises of leftist politicians and celebrities, the truth won’t be denied: socialism poisons everything it touches.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“everywhere. Socialism, whatever form it may take, only brings economic destruction and worsening of the conditions of human life.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Milankovic cycles.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“equalize”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Reisman explains that “what specifically established de facto socialism in Nazi Germany was the introduction of price and wage controls in 1936. These were imposed in response to the inflation of the money supply carried out by the regime from the time of its coming to power in early 1933. The Nazi regime inflated the money supply as the means of financing the vast increase in government spending required by its programs of public works, subsidies, and rearmament. The price and wage controls were imposed in response to the rise in prices that began to result from the inflation.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Chavez and later Maduro instituted widespread price controls that José Niño describes as the “main culprit in Venezuela’s economic tragedy.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“The toxic Soviet European Marxist genie had been let out of the bottle to poison what had been a peaceful and prosperous Southeast Asian land. All the beautiful traditions of Cambodia’s national life soon gave way to the horrors committed by those students who went to France.”15”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Mao led the country to ruin and is responsible for more deaths than either Hitler or Stalin,”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“He describes another horror story where a father was forced to bury his son alive for the crime of stealing a handful of rice.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“The most common tool in this arsenal of horror was food, which was used as a weapon: entire groups of people considered to be too old, too weak, or too sick to work were deliberately banned from the canteen and starved to death.11”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Like all attempts at government-enforced equality, the need for the truncheon arose. In China, sticks served the purpose of truncheons.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Socialism Promises Equality and Leads to Tyranny”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Chapter 23
Socialism Encourages Eugenics”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Substitute the word “fairness” for “the common interest” and you have a talking point for many of today’s new democratic socialists in the United States.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“worker was assigned a position from which he could not be released by the employer, nor could he switch jobs, without permission of the government employment office. Worker absenteeism was met with fines or imprisonment—all in the name of job security.”6”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Hitler’s platform called for “THE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY BEFORE THE GOOD OF THE INDIVIDUAL.” I think both Marx and Bernie would approve of that collectivist motto.”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“he laments that “our legal system is structured to favor private property.” De Blasio dreams of a time when society takes heed of its “socialistic impulse” to plan and control property “in accordance with [the people’s] needs.”3”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism

“Bernie and his merry band of socialists inform us that they only want to punish the top 1 percent. What they won’t admit is that the top 1 percent already pays more than a third of all U.S. income tax revenue and the top 10 percent pays two-thirds of our income taxes. The question is: At what point do the producers finally flee to Galt’s Gulch?”
― Rand Paul, The Case Against Socialism