This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

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.

The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.