Sublime

A social conservative by instinct and upbringing, he did more to alter the relationship between ordinary citizens and their government than any other American.

During his second year in the House, he wrote—himself, with no staff assistance—a bill embodying the old People’s Party dream of intensified government regulation of railroads, by giving the government authority over the issuance of new securities by the railroads. Happening, by chance, to see the bill, Louis D. Brandeis, then one of President Wils

We are now in a situation that is the opposite of the 1970s. Then there was a capital shortage. Now there is a capital surplus. Interest rates are historically low not because the central bank’s policies make it so. They contribute to it. But the fundamental problem is that there is a tremendous pool of money available for investment and a contract

Americans in throwing off the English yoke have been considerably exaggerated. Separated from their enemies by three thousand miles of ocean, and backed by a powerful ally, the success of the United States may be more justly attributed to their geographical position than to the valor of their armies or the patriotism of their