Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time Herbert Hoover More Quotes by Herbert Hoover More Quotes From Herbert Hoover Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure. Herbert Hoover presidential baseball games The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training. Herbert Hoover baseball religious sports Children add to the wonder of being alive. Herbert Hoover alive add children Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over. Herbert Hoover gentleman depression too-late While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. Herbert Hoover unity effort depression I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live. Herbert Hoover real religious faith Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have increased the standards of living and comfort. They have eliminated infinite drudgery. They have increased leisure. But that gives more time for devilment. The work of science has eliminated much disease and suffering. It has increased the length of life. That, together with increase in productivity, has resulted in vastly increased populations. Also it increased the number of people engaged in devilment. Herbert Hoover animal life science Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession. Herbert Hoover men life science I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself. Herbert Hoover main-street army use [N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers. Herbert Hoover ruins prosperity country What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. It needs a moral mobilization against the hideous ideas of the police state and human slavery. I suggest that the United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. It is a proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. It is a proposal to redeem the concept of the United Nations to the high purpose for which it was created. It is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations. And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us. Herbert Hoover other-worlds spiritual believe Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost. Herbert Hoover government soul world More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement. Herbert Hoover women morning jobs In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare of our people. The participation of women in elections has produced a keener realization of the importance of these questions and has contributed to higher national ideals. Moreover, it is through them that our national ideals are ingrained in our children. Herbert Hoover women responsibility children Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world. Herbert Hoover real father lying In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. Herbert Hoover intelligence individual people A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents. Herbert Hoover freedom confusion integrity In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. Herbert Hoover land today america But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs. Herbert Hoover struggle spiritual spring I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character. Herbert Hoover cottages criticism character
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