Will Rogers Quotes
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
Will Rogers, 1879-1935, Cowboy Humorist, The Autobiography of Will Rogers, 1949
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Ataturk was not receptive toward Communism as some other world leaders were at the time. He saw its weakness far earlier than many others.
His official title was: President for Life, Protector of the People, Maximum Chief of the Revolution, Apostle of National Unity, Benefactor of the Poor, Grand Patron of Commerce and Industry, and Electrifier of Souls and the communists were one of the active groups who wanted to get rid of the brutal dictator.
This line was a takeoff on the famous quotation of Karl Marx: {624064}.
Vladimir Lenin. While Lenin was of this view, Stalin and other hard liners disagreed. They not only imposed their brand of communism on their own people via force with terrible consequences for any dissidents, but the Soviet Army imposed Communism on most of the states of Eastern Europe, and those states in turn used their Armies and secret police to impose it on their own citizens.
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. He was a Cherokee citizen born in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.
