Theodore and Woodrow Quotes

“Thanks to Progressives such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, we are now living under a system where the president is forced to step in to stop a regulatory agency from promulgating regulations that Congress refused to enact.”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom

“Alan Greenspan, who would later become the Federal Reserve chairman, wrote in 1966: [T]he earnings saved by the productive members of the society lose value in terms of goods. When the economy’s books are finally balanced, one finds that this loss in value represents the goods purchased by the government for welfare and other purposes. . . . In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. . . . This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the “hidden” confiscation of wealth.24”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom

“Republicans remained purely about small government until they started their unlawful and unnecessary wars. The first was Nixon’s and later Reagan’s and Bush’s War on Drugs, and the second was George W. Bush’s War on Terror. These wars enlarged government, increased spending, enhanced regulation, took away the rights of the American people, and were largely ineffective.”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom

“The theory of Woodrow Wilson’s era was that the Thirteenth Amendment did not apply to the government and that, when in war, the government could force individuals into the military or into a specific labor market.”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom