Herbert Hoover actually said...

It is the soil in which self respect takes root, and from which may then grow all the moral and spiritual enrichments of life.

Message Commending the National Urban League on Its Job Training Efforts for Negroes.

03/12/1930

More Herbert Hoover Quotes

Even though the effect may be temporary, it deprives many farmers of their rightful income.

I refer to a limited number of speculators, and I am not expressing any views upon the economics of short selling in normal times.

It has but one purpose and that is to depress prices.

It has come to my knowledge that certain persons are selling short in our commodity markets, particularly in wheat.