Country Quote by Vladimir Putin

It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism.

— Wojciech Jaruzelski

When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in…

— Rick Perry

This much I would say: Socialism has failed all over the world. In the eighties, I would hear every day that there is no…

— Subramanian Swamy

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

— Thomas Sowell

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United…

— Brad Thor

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

— Lester R. Brown

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

— Stefan Heym

Socialism most always leads to a failure of democracy because the economic system ultimately cannot provide for its people.

— Trish Regan

Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path…

— Richard Ebeling

Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.

— Jaboukie Young-White

“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” —WSC, PERTH, 28 MAY 1948”

— Winston Churchill

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

— Robert Heilbroner