Call to Decision

What gives the new despotism its peculiar effectiveness
is indeed its liaison with humanitarianism,
but beyond this fact its capacity for entering
into the smallest details of human life."
-- Robert Nisbet
(1913-1996) Communitarian Traditionalist
Source: Twilight of Authority, 1981
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Nisbet.Quote.303F

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under
the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist
program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without
knowing how it happened."
-- Norman Thomas
(1884-1968) six-time U.S. Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America
Source: 1948 - from an interview during the presidential campaign,

[Ed. note: Norman Thomas and Gus Hall, the U.S. Communist Party
Candidate, both quit American politics, agreeing that the Republican
and Democratic parties by 1970 had adopted every plank on the
Communist/Socialist and they no longer had an alternate party platform
on which to run.]
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Norman.Thomas.Quote.FFB1

"It’s about food. It’s about your home. It’s about your life.
The government is worried about all of the above.
All I’m saying is you should be worried they’re worried. Here’s why:
They’re telling you that you can’t take care of yourself.
You can’t be trusted with what you put in your mouth
or what you sign on the mortgage dotted line.
So they’ll tell you what to put in your mouth and
they’ll save you from what you signed on that dotted line.
Does anyone see a trend here? Personal responsibility has
now become government responsibility."
-- Neil Cavuto
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Neil.Cavuto.Quote.1965