Richard Stanley Quotes

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Civil Rights Program is a farce and a sham – an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty.

A global government would almost by definition abusive. As someone who escaped from Communist government, how would I escape from global government.

I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.

In my early 20s, living in a communist regime in Romania, success to me simply meant leaving and coming to America.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.