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.

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 Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Business is in itself a power.

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

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

Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.