If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

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.

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

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.

Our children serve as the greatest reminder that kindness is the greatest service.

You are an atheist if you do not believe in yourself.

We fear pain so much that if the truth hurts, we embrace the lies.

My mouth blooms like a cut.

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.

I'm really working on trying to get that lifestyle aspect of the Emilio Pucci house to be as strong as possible.

I'm not much of a horror fan. When it comes to ghost stuff and demon stuff, I can't watch that.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.