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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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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.
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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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 of the two classes are antagonistic.
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The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
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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.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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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.
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Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
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