Richard Nixon Quotes

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or another variant of state capitalism.

There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.

Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and China had their bloody revolutions and even while they were Communist, they had the same idea about generating wealth - tear it out of the bowels of the earth. And now they have come out with the same idea in the end... you know, capitalism. But capitalism will fail, too.

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 States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

Neither Capitalism nor Socialism can pretend to be an ideology. They are merely methods for dividing ownership and income.

If experts were usually right, socialism would prevail.

Free enterprise and the market economy mean war; socialism and planned economy mean peace. We must plan civilization or we must perish.

The clash of communism and capitalism sterilized rather than stimulated research on capital and inequality by historians, economists, and even philosophers.

We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.

The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

I don't believe government should take over, you know, the grocery store down the street or own the means of production.

Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.