It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.

No one ever lost his job by listening too much.

The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.