Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

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

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.

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

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.

No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?