Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they can get them without undue personal effort, so much the better. So the executive naturally tends to promise material gain, contingent of course on his remaining in power. The impetus to personal rule is obvious.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

Free enterprise is a natural result of the American form of government, which says in so many words that the more men do for themselves, the less government does for them, the better off we will all be.