Herbert Clark Hoover
» Children » “Children are our most valuable natural resource.”
» Country » “My country owes me nothing. 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.”
» Freedom » “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
» Ideals and Idealism » “Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.”
» Leaders and Leadership » “In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.”
» Opportunity » “About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
» Peace » “Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.”
» Poverty and The Poor » “In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.”
» Poverty and The Poor » “We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.”
» Progress » “The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.”
» Unity » “Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.”
» War » “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
» Wisdom » “Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.”
» Youth » “Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.”
