"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."

History, Controversy, Debate, Nothing

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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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"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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"You do not defend a world that is already lost."

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"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."

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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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"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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"Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free."

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"Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world."

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