Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

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.