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.

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

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

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

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

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