Herbert Hoover actually said...

Above all yours is a mission of exemplifying the standards of individual conduct which are the basis of national character.

Address to the Convention of the International Christian Endeavor Societies.

07/15/1931

More Herbert Hoover Quotes

The overcrowding of the prisons themselves is inhumane and accentuates criminal tendencies.

There should be a transfer of the functions of detection and prosecution of prohibition cases from the Treasury Department to the Department...

The District of Columbia is without an adequate prohibition enforcement law.

There must be extension of federal prisons with more adequate parole system and other modern treatment of prisoners.