“The first charge on all production is the proper and adequate maintenance of the workers.”— Stafford Cripps
“Once finance capital has brought the most important branches of production under its control, it is enough to have society... seize finance capital in order to gain immediate control.”— Rudolf Hilferding
“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”— Hubert H. Humphrey
“The substitution of economic planning for the market economy removes all freedom and leaves to the individual merely the right to obey.”— Ludwig von Mises
“What socialism and all forms of government intervention have in common is the fact that they are based on the use of physical force.”— George Reisman
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”— Winston Churchill