It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

The first twelve years are the hardest.

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.