"Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"

1787

"A republic if you can keep it." -- Benjamin Franklin

1751 - 1836

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents...." --James Madison

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined [and] will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce." --James Madison

1805 - 1859

"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." --Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political thinker

1818 - 1883

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." --Karl Marx

1882 - 1945

"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1894 - 1971

"We can't expect the American people to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have communism." --Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev

2004

"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Clinton said, according to the Associated Press. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you.

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." --Hillary 'Marx' Clinton

2006

“The other day the oil companies recorded the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits." -- Hillary Marx Chavez Robbem Rodham Clinton

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