Business is in itself a power.

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

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

With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

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.

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to control money, and that this is true of both autocratic and popular government.