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.
Herbert HooverThe use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
Herbert HooverWe are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.
Herbert Hoover