"That the price offered appears to represent a fair price and, in view of all the attendant circumstances, it is considered that advertisement and public sale are not necessary."
"I HAVE received Your Excellency's message of January eighteenth."
"The Department of Labor reports this morning that for the first time since the stock exchange crash the tide of employment is changed in the right direction--shows a very distinct increase in employme..."
"I assure Your Excellency that the reception which he received here may be taken as indicating the feeling of friendship which the Government and people of this country bear toward their sister Republi..."
"Both Mrs. Hoover and myself were very happy to have the President elect of Mexico and Senora de Ortiz Rubio as our guests."
"I send you my cordial congratulations upon your birthday and I do pray that you may long continue in health and happiness to be the wise counselor and valued friend of the youth of the land."
"I am sorry to say that I haven't got a single particle of news of any sort or kind at the present time."
"I wish you every success in the efforts you and your associates are putting forth along these lines."
"I am much interested in the work of the Pan American Society in its promotion of friendly relations and mutual understanding between the United States and its sister republics of Latin America."
"The proposed legislation has my approval and I recommend its immediate enactment."
"There is nothing in the program which has been proposed here that has any intention of taking over the responsibilities of the States in any shape or form."
"Our great American experiment has demonstrated that the people will of their own initiative take care of progress if the government can remove abuse and help put the signs on the road, stimulation to ..."
"It is from too much emphasis on 'government of the people' that we get the fundamental confusion that government, since it can correct much abuse, can also create righteousness."
"When we look back over history we see the periods of either moral, social, economic, or political stagnation while the truth was en route and some variety of demagoguery occupied the scene."
"But if these blots were other than exceptions, this nation would not have swept to a mightier and mightier destiny every year since the Independence."
"Possibly if I had either the time or the inclination to worry over the evils which lurk around the White House it might decrease my faith in human goodness, but, fortunately, the insistent need for de..."
"In the meantime, a vast clamor of half-truths and untruths and injured facts will always fill the air and intoxicate people's emotions."
"THE PRESIDENT. It seems a sad thing to bring you all here from really a good day, but I haven't a thing on my mind."