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

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.

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

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.

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

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.