There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

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?

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

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

The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

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.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.