Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it

It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the liberalism of the French Revolution. The French writers who laid its foundation had no doubt that their ideas could be put into practice only by a strong dictatorial government. The first of modern planners, Saint-Simon, predicted that those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would be “treated as cattle.”

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master

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

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass