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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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"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."

"I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism."

"Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself."

"There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest."

"WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical."

"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism."

"Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines."

"Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers."

"We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that."
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"It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws."


"The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice."


"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."


"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."


"Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold."


"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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