Quote #35

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

More from Herbert Hoover

  1. This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.
  2. It does not follow, because our difficulties are stupendous, because there are some souls timorous enough to doubt the validity and effecti…
  3. The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He m…
  4. No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
  5. So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last f…
  6. As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our people who are in honest difficulties.
  7. My conception of America is a land where men and women may walk in ordered freedom in the independent conduct of their occupations; where t…
  8. The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the communi…

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