Quotes for the New Year

Quotes for the New Year, recalling a time when the battle lines were more clear to everyone, and lip service in support of free enterprise by its actual enemies was not so easily believed:

" The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power. " --Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order."
--Adolph Hitler