If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

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.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

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

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

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