Herbert Hoover Quotes About Free Speech

Quotes about: Free Speech

• It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

  Herbert Hoover

  Freedom, Democracy, Ladders

• The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

  Herbert Hoover

  Simple, Government, Presidential

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

• You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty.

  Herbert Hoover

  Opportunity, Government, Roots

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President”

• Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

  Herbert Hoover

  Government, Presidential, Doubt

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

• Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Freedom, Speech, Doe

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.162, Stanford University Press

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