Herbert Hoover actually said...

"For you are concerned in the special interest of boys, and I am a willing ally in that interest."

"It is what to do with him in his leisure time that will, of course, contribute to his health and his education and his morals, but in the main what will direct his interests to constructive joy instea..."

"The conviction that every person in the Republic owes a service to the Republic; that the Republic rests solely upon the willingness of everyone born into it to bear his part of the duties and obligat..."

"The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his store of high idealism and his fragrant hope."