Herbert Hoover

They have during the year saved about $11 million by economies throughout the various divisions.

Of the appropriations for this next year and these balances, it is expected that about $20 million will be saved during the next year.

I greatly regret that your personal situation is such that you cannot continue on the Board for the present.

I wish to take this occasion to express my appreciation, and the appreciation which I know the whole agricultural industry holds, for the great service you have rendered and the devotion you have shown in the difficult times of the past…

The service of the College has been memorable and I speak the heart of the Nation in wishing for it many years of ever increasing usefulness.

The Children's Charter, which it promulgated, sets forth the aspirations and objectives of those who are seeking the protection and the rounded development of the children of America.

It would give us great pleasure if it were possible for us to be present, but other engagements will not permit.

The way to the Nation's greatness is the path of self-reliance, independence, and steadfastness in times of trial and stress.

The whole Nation is beset with difficulties incident to a worldwide depression.

The constant advancement of the spiritual welfare of our country is its primary necessity, and your efforts are a very substantial contribution to that objective.

I SHALL appreciate it if you will express my cordial greetings to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, now in session in your city.

I will be obliged, however, if you will express my cordial greetings to those gathered for this happy occasion and my profound appreciation of the tremendous service which Berea College, both by its own work and by its example, has done in…

The White House Conference on Child Health and Protection recognizes the rights of the child as the first rights of citizenship.

Freedom was won here by fortitude not by the flash of the sword.

The necessary multitude of individuals and group adjustments to new conditions is altogether too vast and too complex for that.

We must ever continue that fight.

Here men endured that a nation might live.

Valley Forge is our American synonym for the trial of human character through privation and suffering.

Never was the lure of the rosy path to every panacea and of easy ways to imagined security more tempting.

These peaceful fields hold a glory peculiarly their own.

I enclose a copy of the Children's Charter, which states succinctly the rights of children, regardless of race or color or situation, wherever they may live under the protection of the American flag.

We are still fighting this war of independence.

In these times, when a large number of segments of our population are seeking relief, that was indeed the greatest and most considerate relief ever extended to the President of the United States.

I am deeply honored by your courteous hospitality.

I said that in these times of extra and heavy burdens, that I should defer that date in order that I might be prepared, under easier circumstances perhaps, to discuss public questions as my predecessors have done.