We Didn't Fight for Socialism Quotes

“Imagine how things would change in major-league baseball if all the bonus money for winning the World Series were given to the team’s manager and owner instead of the players. The players’ motivation level would fall to less than zero.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Imagine how things would change in major-league baseball if all the bonus money for winning the World Series were given to the team’s manager and owner instead of the players. The”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Decades of socialist indoctrination in our public schools and colleges is finally paying off for the Left, but it is taking America down a one-way street to disaster.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Because socialists value equality and conformance over achievement and entrepreneurship, socialist countries will always struggle with shortages of essential goods.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“The pay of workers in a socialist setting might be equal, but their contributions to the group are not, and people within the group know it.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Only by knowing the people they hope to influence can those in leadership positions determine which incentives are most likely to motivate them.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Like all human concepts, ambition must be tempered by morality or it can go awry.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Have you ever noticed how people who own their own homes tend to take better care of them than those who live in government housing or even those who rent their homes?”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“When the team performs better, the individuals on the team are rewarded. But for socialists, individual rewards are anathema. Everyone must be equal; everyone must be paid the same.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Bureaucratic planners in socialist countries work to meet government-mandated quotas, not consumer demand.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“The thing that should leap off the page at you from this definition is when you are dependent on the government as the sole-source provider of your basic human needs, you have become a slave to the government.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Socialism is a philosophy in which the government controls every aspect of the individual’s life, whether by coercion or by the imposition of laws, regulations, and taxes.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“The point these socialist advocates miss is the people in question voluntarily gave up their private property;”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“People become as addicted to government handouts as they do to drugs: even those who sincerely want to break the habit find it difficult and sometimes impossible.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“defining socialism: it is not the utopian paradise promised by Leftist ideologues wherein a benevolent nanny government supplies all of your wants and needs. A government taking care of you from cradle to grave is the promise socialist ideologues make to win the support of the naive and ignorant, but this is a false promise.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Socialism is like Disney World: what you see behind the scenes is much different from what you see publicly.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“It is also disingenuous to judge people solely on their flaws while ignoring their contributions.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“One of the veterans surveyed for this book commented that any American who falls for the false promise of free health care should be required to spend time in line at a Veterans Administration hospital, waiting for treatment.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“advocates of socialism promise Americans free health care, free college tuition, student-debt forgiveness, and lifelong welfare with no work requirement.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Freedom, liberty, individual rights, self-determination, opportunity, and the rule of law have long characterized the American ideal. These principles are why for more than four hundred years immigrants from all over the world have left their homelands, seeking better lives here.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Socialists now control the Democratic Party and the White House. This means socialists are on the verge of controlling you.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Those principles included freedom, individual liberty, self-determination, God-given rights, equal opportunity, the rule of law, and private property. They did not include collectivism, groupthink, or government control of every aspect of the individual’s life—the defining characteristics of socialism.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” Churchill”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“Americans who’d voted the Biden/Harris ticket had ever lived in a socialist country, they would have voted differently.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up

“They fought for freedom, individual rights, rule of law, the opportunity to build a better life, and all the other things making America historically great.”
― Oliver L. North, We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up