Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once but gradually, and is therefore one of the great natural designs. When it was found and identified by such men as Adam Smith, who wrote its bible, and Karl Marx, who wrote its obituary too soon, it was already working.