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

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

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

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

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

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