The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

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.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.