Interesting Quotes

"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device
to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
[Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov] (1870 - 1924), First Leader of the Soviet Union
Source: Questionable: supposedly from "The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia", Selected Works, Vol. I, International Publishers, New York, 1967, however, the quote does not appear in the text
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/jan/25.htm
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Vladimir.Lenin.Quote.B5E7


"Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty."
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
[Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov] (1870 - 1924), First Leader of the Soviet Union
Source: "The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia", Selected Works, Vol. I, International Publishers, New York, 1967
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Vladimir.Lenin.Quote.8614

"The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal."
-- Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: “The Fascist New Frontier,” The Ayn Rand Column, p.98
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ayn.Rand.Quote.393B