I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.
I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.
I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
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