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 the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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.
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
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 that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.
