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American industry is not free, as once it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924The New Freedom (1913), Section I: “The Old Order Changeth”, p. 15
- Business
- Economics
We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists.
Augusto Pinochet1915–2006As quoted in Hoy magazine (Chile), 23 February 1988
- Power
When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best.
Donald Trumpborn 1946Presidential bid announcement (June 16, 2015)
I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.
E. B. White1899–1985Letter to the New York Herald Tribune (29 November 1947)
- Fear
In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), Ch. 3, p. 80
- Economics
- Life & Death
If you can control a people’s economy, you don’t need to worry about its politics; its politics have become irrelevant.
Wendell Berry1934–2026Another Turn of the Crank (1996), “Conserving Forest Communities”
- Economics
For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another.
Che Guevara1928–1967Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
- Economics
In our nation’s 246 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.
Dick Cheney1941–2025Campaign advertisement for Liz Cheney’s re-election (August 2022)
- Presidency
In situations of de facto diversity, attempts to impose a single way of life on an entire population is a formula for dictatorship.
Francis Fukuyamaborn 1952Liberalism and its Discontents (2020)
- Government
I will now confess my own utopia. I devoutly believe in the reign of peace and in the gradual advent of some sort of socialistic equilibrium.
William James1842–1910The Moral Equivalent of War (1906)
- War & Peace
By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VI, pp. 235-236
- Economics
- Government
Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.
George Washington1732–1799George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
In terms of our liberal democracy and constitutional order, Trump is an extinction-level event. It’s long past time we started treating him as such.
Andrew Sullivanborn 1963“America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny” in New York Magazine (2 May 2016)
- Democracy
Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist.
Umberto Eco1932–2016Ur-Fascism (1995)
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 Thatcher1925–2013Speech to Conservative Central Council (15 March 1986)
- Power