One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. Herbert Hoover Read Quote
Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom. Herbert Hoover Read Quote
The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity. Herbert Hoover Read Quote
At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. Herbert Hoover Read Quote
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation. Herbert Hoover Read Quote
The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger. Herbert Hoover Read Quote
America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios. Herbert Hoover Read Quote
The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men. Herbert Hoover Read Quote
I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours. Herbert Hoover Read Quote
My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted. Herbert Hoover Read Quote
