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

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.

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

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

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.

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

Business is in itself a power.