America Quote by Paul Johnson

“Andrew Mellon himself would have been pleased with the succession of hefty tax cuts that Reagan pushed through Congress. He slashed corporate and individual…

— Jane Mayer

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

“Roosevelt did an about-face and adopted Hoover’s blueprint for government involvement in the economy—then juiced it on steroids.”

— Brion T. McClanahan

“The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.”

— Masha Gessen

“When Franklin D. Roosevelt was asked what book he could give the Soviets to teach them about the advantages of American society, he pointed…

— Alain de Botton

And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union…

— John F. Kennedy

“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to materialize. The…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a…

— Thomas Sowell

“[I]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities,” one Soviet official explained in 1973.”

— John Lewis Gaddis

“You couldn’t have established a communist regime in sixteenth-century Russia, because communism necessitates the concentration of information and resources in one hub.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not…

— Noam Chomsky