“I am a communist, but not a member of the Communist Party. Stalin is a first rate Fabian. I am one of the founders of Fabianism and as such very friendly to Russia.”
As quoted in the Evening Herald in Dublin, Ireland (February 3, 1948), reprinted in Economic Council Letter, Issue 278, Part 397 (1952), p. 1807 https://books.google.com/books?id=qtAeAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=first+rate+Fabian <br class="br">1940s and later
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Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Responding to a question at his press conference (February 28, 1947); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1947, p. 191
“Communism. Jewry. I am a German Communist.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Peter Longerich, Goebbels: A Biography, New York, NY, Random House (2015) p. 26, “Erinnerungsblätter,” 27, (diary entry: 1924)
1920s
Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) Pan Africanist and First Prime Minister and President of Ghana
Quoted in Asiaweek, Vol. 5 (1979), p. 28.
“I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.”
E. B. White (1899–1985) American writer
Letter to the New York Herald Tribune (29 November 1947)
Context: I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears so much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic.
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
14 November 1925, The Early Goebbels Diaries 1925-1926, Helmut Heiber, edit. Oliver Watson, trans. Frederick A. Praeger, New York, (1963)
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“I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Variants: I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat.
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Source: Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935), Ch. 9 "Rogers was a lifelong Democrat but he studiously avoided partisanship. He contributed to the Democratic campaign funds, but at the same time he frequently appeared on benefit programs to raise money for the Republican treasury. Republican leaders sought his counsel in their campaigns as often as did the Democrats." ~ P. J. O'Brien
“The Communist Party must be a revolutionary party our it will cease to be a Communist Party.”
Tim Buck (1891–1973) Canadian politician
Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada
Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
As quoted in Reprints from the Soviet Press (1977), p. 5