Our country is not flourishing. The enormous creative and spiritual potential of our nations is not being used sensibly. Entire branches of industry are producing goods that are of no interest to anyone, while we are lacking the things we need. A state which calls itself a workers' state humiliates and exploits workers. Our obsolete economy is wasting the little energy we have available.

My dear fellow citizens, For forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme: how our country was flourishing, ho…

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thou…

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never…

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industrie…

The nicest thing I can say about Frances Farmer is that she is unbearable. ~ Director William Wyler, after working with her on the film Come and Get It

Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of r…