Via Bernhard
American conservative icon Robert Alphonso Taft was born in 1889 at Cincinnati, the son of President William Howard Taft. A graduate of Yale and Harvard, he entered the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly in 1921 and became Republican leader of that body in 1925, and Speaker in 1926; He served in the Ohio Senate during 1931-32, and in 1939 he took his seat in the United States Senate. He was the conservative Republican front-runner for the 1952 Republican presidential nomination, but was passed over by dominant liberal Republicans in favor of political newcomer General Dwight Eisenhower
“[The Democratic Party New Dealers and Roosevelt] have no concern whatever for individual freedom. They are collectivists, like Marx and Lenin and Mussolini. They believe in a planned economy; that the Government should regulate every detail of industrial and commercial agricultural life. They are willing to sacrifice individual freedom in order supposedly to improve the conditions of the poor and increase their material welfare. But in this purpose the policy has completely failed….
If any policy leans backward and not forward, it is the policy of spending billions of borrowed money and piling up tremendous debt for future generations to pay. A policy which inevitably leads to bankruptcy and inflation of the currency will only make the poor people poorer but is likely to force a socialism which will utterly deprive them of individual freedom.” Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican, Ohio.
(The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft, Russell Kirk and James McClellan, Fleet Press, 1967, pp. 36-37)
No comments:
Post a Comment