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Communist Leaders Quotes

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

Hermann Goring
War, Communist Leaders, Agriculture

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.

Earl Browder
Struggle, Communist Leaders, Two

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

Hermann Goring
War, Communist Leaders, Political Will
Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.

Jan Koum
Kids, Communist Leaders, Anecdotes
"WhatsApp: The inside story". Interview with David Rowan, www.wired.co.uk. February 19, 2014.

There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Thinking, Communist Leaders, Support

In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores.

Harry S. Truman
Strong, Fall, Communist Leaders

Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries.

Rush Limbaugh
Country, Communist Leaders, Pope
"The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela - who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.

Rush Limbaugh
Government, Communist Leaders, White
"Limbaugh claims Dems' interest in Darfur is securing black 'voting bloc'". www.mediamatters.org. August 23, 2007.

Vaclav Havel was a really popular leader. He couldn't believe that he was really there. I mean, he still dressed in black T-shirts and jeans and was very kind of '60s. And he began to realize the seriousness of it. And he knew how to strategize. And he had a very keen political sense, but he didn't want to be like the old communist leaders.

Judy Woodruff
Believe, Mean, Communist Leaders
Source: www.pbs.org

The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests.

Gerald R. Ford
Determination, Communist Leaders, United States
Gerald R. Ford (1973). “Selected speeches”, Desert Publications

We should know why paternalism, collectivism, or unnecessary federal supervision will hold our standard of living down and reduce productivity just as it has in every country where it has been tried. We should also know why the communist leaders consider socialism the highroad to communism.

Ezra Taft Benson
Country, Communist Leaders, Down And
Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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