Political Quotes

Herbert Hoover

The Public Record

May 26, 1932

I wish especially to pay tribute to her great services in the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, and in the President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership.

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May 26, 1932

I AM SHOCKED to learn of the sudden death of Miss Van Rensselaer.

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May 26, 1932

Her passing will bring a sense of personal loss to thousands from whom her quiet devotion to every cause looking to the well-being of children and to the enrichment of the life of women had evoked their warm affection and their deep…

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May 26, 1932

The Nation has lost a great citizen, and all who knew her a loyal friend.

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May 25, 1932

His example and the example of your spiritual forebears challenge you who are leaders of this generation to a commensurate share in solving the hardly less difficult problems of our own day.

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May 25, 1932

An equal courage and boldness in declaring the sound principles of life and government which they helped bequeath to us.

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May 22, 1932

The back of the depression cannot be broken by any single Government undertaking.

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May 22, 1932

What you want and what I want is to restore normal employment.

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May 22, 1932

It will serve no good purpose and will fool no one to try to cover appearances by resorting to a so-called 'extraordinary Budget.'

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May 22, 1932

No institution doing the work this Seminary is doing should be allowed to fail, particularly in times like these.

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