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"It's socialism. It moves the country in a direction which is not good for anyone, whether they be young or old. It charts a course from which there will be no turning back." 
   [Senator Carl Curtis (R-NE), in 1965, opposing Medicare]


"The Act represents a step in the direction of Communism, bolshevism, fascism, and Nazism." 
   [The National Association of Manufacturers, in 1938, condemning a national minimum wage]


"Woman suffrage would give to the wives and daughters of the poor a new opportunity to gratify their envy and mistrust of the rich. Meantime these new voters would become either the purchased or cajoled victims of plausible political manipulators, or the intimidated and helpless voting vassals of imperious employers." 
    [President Grover Cleveland, in 1905, on why women shouldn't be able to vote]