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Quotes from The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover — Herbert Hoover

1874–1964 United States

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Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage. Our people have more to eat, better things to wear, and better homes.

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

The American people from bitter experience have a rightful fear that great business units might be used to dominate our industrial life and by illegal and unethical practices destroy equality of opportunity...

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

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