Norman Thomas

 Norman Thomas (U.S. socialist presidential candidate) on the true evils of liberalism:

"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."

Ludwig von Mises: "The educated strata are more gullible than the less educated.  The most enthusiastic supporters of Marxism, Nazism, and Fascism were the intellectuals, not the boors."