Occupation: Journalist Birth: February 19, 1878 Death: November 6, 1954
There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to control mo….
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government..
Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once but gradually, and is therefore one of the gre….
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 rep….
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy..
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of th….
There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse..
Government is the natural enemy of freedom..
There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direc….
You do not defend a world that is already lost..
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business..
No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-suppor….
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day a….
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws..
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world..
Business is in itself a power..
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold..
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 migh….
Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other h….
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 th….
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests….