Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

Business is in itself a power.

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?

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

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

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.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.