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

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

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

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

We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You are now entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'

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

Business is in itself a power.