American constitution Quote by Ronald Reagan

“I had a copy of the Soviet Constitution and I read it with great interest. And I saw all kinds of terms in there…

— Ronald Reagan

“In the Soviet Union there is freedom of speech. But it's not written anywhere that one should be free after his speech.”

— Sergey Grechishkin

“Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.”

— Mal Peet

“Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had…

— Orlando Figes

“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been…

— Masha Gessen

The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.

— Vladimir Lenin

“Freedom is not a constitution, or the day it is declared, it's a long process and all of us, each one of us removing…

— Ari Sitas

American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

— Joseph Stalin

That (separation of church and state) was never in the Constitution, however much the liberals laugh at me for saying it, they know good…

— Pat Robertson

“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”

— Ken Follett

“We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Like a lot of lawyers in the party, my father combined uncritical devotion to the imaginary Soviet Union in his head with a passion…

— Katha Pollitt