Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.
Herbert HooverThe fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.
Herbert HooverThe use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
Herbert HooverLet us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its efficiency. Its worth depends on the use that is made of it... For the first time in human history we have available to us the ability to communicate simultaneously with millions of our fellowmen, to furnish entertainment, instruction, widening vision of national problems and national events. An obligation rests on us to see that it is devoted to real service and to develop the material that is transmitted into that which is really worthwhile.
Herbert HooverThe rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.
Herbert HooverThe 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 Hoover