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.

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

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.

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

With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

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.