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

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.

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.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.

It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.

I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.