The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.