Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

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William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorist. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he...

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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

There ought to be one day—just one—when there is open season on senators.

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

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Communism is like one big phone company.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.

—Dom H. Camara

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Romania had been under communist rule since 1945, but it was after Ceausescu came to power in 1965 that life really began to deteriorate.… Then, one night in the late 1980s, a group of men dressed as street sweepers draped the statue of Lenin in Bucharest with big truck tires and set them on fire. It was a bold and daring act in a country where, it was said, for every Romanian on the street there were two secret police officers. The next morning traffic was detoured while workers from nearby factories were brought in to clean the statue with razor blades. That day I realized that change was possible.

—Florin Ion Firimita

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