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

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

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

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

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.

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

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.