Burgess Owens Quotes

Individualism is to collectivism as capitalism is to socialism

The American does not want to listen to socialism because he thinks he already has it.

Nothing could be more contrary to American values than the mob-like mentality and socialist precepts pushed by the far left. They seek nothing less than the complete destruction of the basis on which America was founded.

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.

If we just go back to the basics... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.

Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

The battle is one between the power of chaos, Marxism and destruction…and the powers of order, Christian civilization and the upliftment of the people.

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.

Mrs Thatcher was a mirror-image Marxist. Everything that Marx abhorred she thought was good

Don't talk to me about socialism. What we have, we hold.

I am not a communist. I do not agree with communism.

Socialism holds nothing but unhappiness for the human race. It destroys personal initiative, wipes out national pride ... and plays into the hands of the autocrats.... Socialism is the end of fanatics, the sophistry of so-called intelligentsia, and it has no place in the hearts of those who would secure and fight for freedom and preserve democracy.

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

You cannot be a modern man and be a Marxist.

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

I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" Reagan wondered. "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

I'm a staunch believer in enterprise, and I'm glad I live in a country where - I don't think some people understand this, but if I work hard, I get rewarded for it.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

I consider the philosophy of the Communist Party as not applicable to our American way of life.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.