P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I do not believe that Communism will overwhelm the free world.

The century that just ended was the bloodiest ever recorded. Enormous sacrifices were required of our youth to preserve our free way of life. But because they were willing to make those sacrifices, our survival as a nation and as a free people is no longer threatened. Democracy and private enterprise, though not without their faults, have prevailed over the collectivist ideologies that threatened us with destruction.

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.

Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism.... We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

What a commentary on the real nature of capitalism in its decadent phase is this, that the scientific conquest of the marvelous secret of atomic energy, which might rationally be used to lighten the burdens of all mankind, is employed first for the wholesale destruction of half a million people…. This is how American imperialism is bringing civilisation to the Orient.

Our involvement in this war is treason to the interests of international socialism.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

You can’t run the railroads without taking in some Nazi party members

Fighting against communism is as beneficial as praying.

Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.

I loved history and Eastern European politics.

So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.

I grew up with communism, and if you live through communism you don't love it.

My father fled from the North, hating communism.

I don't believe that either fascism or communism is the solution or that they may come back on this earth.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.