No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
Herbert HooverAll progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
Herbert HooverI am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation which is going forward in Palestine under Jewish auspices, and to add my expression to the sentiment among our people in favor of the realization of the age-old aspirations of the Jewish people for the restoration of their national homeland.
Herbert HooverMy boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.
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 Hoover