Breaking free Quote by Earl Browder

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the…

— Douglass North

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

— Grover Norquist

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

— Elia Kazan

The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

I was a kid during the height of the Cold War. If I did something wrong, my parents just accused me of being a…

— Nikhil Saluja

I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in…

— Ella Baker

I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing…

— Richard Wurmbrand

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing…

— Earl Browder

In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new…

— Chiang Kai-shek

Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have…

— Mario Bunge

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.

— Martin Niemoller

It cannot be so very surprising that I adopted a Communist viewpoint in the 1930s; so many of my contemporaries made the same choice.…

— Kim Philby