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 New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

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

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

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.

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

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.