Hoover

Famous quotes containing the word hoover:

    [O]ur people are steadily increasing their spending for higher standards of living ... the slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage.... They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)