Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

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.

Business is in itself a power.

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

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

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

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

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

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

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.

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

In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.

When you get crapped on, grow a garden.

Don't judge a cat by its coat.

I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.

I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

Withholding a decision is a decision.