Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.