There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

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

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.