Quotes

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Louis Blanc, The Organization of Work, 1840

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. Nikita Khrushchev, remark at the Polish embasy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956

I once said, “We will bury you,” and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. Nikita Khrushchev, Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24,...

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards. Gary Lee Phillips

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939