Political Quotes

Herbert Hoover

The Public Record

Jul 1, 1929

This will be the first national conference held in review of this subject since the conference called by President Roosevelt in 1909.

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Jun 29, 1929

Please say for me to the members of the Zionist Organization of America, gathered in annual convention at Detroit on June 30th, that I pray their deliberations may be, as always, richly fruitful in that spiritual wisdom for which the…

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Jun 28, 1929

On this second anniversary of your transatlantic flight to France, I wish personally and upon behalf of the Nation to congratulate you and your gallant comrades upon that triumph of courage and skill over the resisting forces of Nature…

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Jun 28, 1929

The road to world peace is through a maze of all the tangled complexities of human nature, and may be traversed only by dealing with them in a practical spirit and with much patience.

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Jun 28, 1929

In this forward march of the human spirit, poets lead the way with their visions of the ideal, and therefore you do well, in your memorial to Robert Burns, to stress his aspiration toward the time when 'Man to Man, the world o'er, shall…

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Jun 28, 1929

Nevertheless, all men of good-will must press steadily toward that goal if civilization is to survive.

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Jun 28, 1929

Mrs. Edna May may be appointed as an Operative in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without compliance with the requirements of the civil service rules.

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Jun 28, 1929

Mrs. Ida A. Coffey may be appointed to an appropriate position in the Department of Commerce without reference to the provisions of the civil service rules.

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Jun 27, 1929

I have one question that I can't very well answer without making trouble for other people.

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Jun 27, 1929

We will not as I want to wait until the new Director of the Budget comes on the job to learn something of his duties.

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Jun 27, 1929

That matter is in the hands of the Secretary of War, so you will have to ask him.

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