You do not defend a world that is already lost.

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.

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.

Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions

Universe has it all for you, just ask.

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy.

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.