From The Federalist : “We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving t

From The Federalist:
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“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.” –Nikita Khrushchev

and:
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“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

and:
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“Social Security should be phased out and ended altogether. … Social
Security in any form is morally irredeemable. We should be debating,
not how to save Social Security, but how to end it — how to phase it
out so as to best protect both the rights of those who have paid into
it, and those who are forced to pay for it today. This will be a
painful task. But it will make possible a world in which Americans
enjoy far greater freedom to secure their own futures.” –Alex Epstein

and:
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“The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people,
too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the
Constitution.” –Ronald Reagan
[End the War on Freedom]

I especially like the first two–although I wish they had been wrong.