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

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.

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.

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

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

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