Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

@rbreich ... Harry was right ...
@doctoralexa @rbreich "I never gave anybody hell. I gave them the truth and they thought it was hell." - also Truman