Herbert Hoover Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

  Herbert Hoover

  History, Purpose, World

• 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”

• Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

  Herbert Hoover

  Presidential, Purpose, Spirit

  Herbert Hoover (2005). “American Individualism”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

• An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Desire, May

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

• Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Men, Eight

• America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

  Herbert Hoover

  America, Presidential, Purpose

  Letter toWilliam E. Borah, 23 Feb. 1928.

• American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

  Herbert Hoover

  Business, Struggle, Needs

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933”

• I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.

  Herbert Hoover

  Opportunity, Government, Civilization

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931”

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