Herbert Hoover actually said...

I hope you will express on my behalf the appreciation the whole of America has for this magnificent contribution to the development of our youth.

Message to the World Scout Jamboree.

08/06/1929

More Herbert Hoover Quotes

Clara Barton was in her own person and her own life all that the Red Cross has since become.

It represents our people in their most generous, unselfish, and spontaneously warmhearted character.

By its very purpose it compels the respect for its own flag and its own passports.

THE RED CROSS is one of the most beautiful flowers of the American spirit and the American democracy.