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My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Herbert Hoover

Girl, Country, Boys

Letter to Senator George H. Moses on June 14, 1928. "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover", volume 2, p. 195, 1952.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.

Herbert Hoover

Country, Horse, Men

Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

Herbert Hoover

Country, Selfish, Opportunity

I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.

Herbert Hoover

Country, Agency, Government

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

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

Herbert Hoover

Country, Ruins, Prosperity

Herbert Hoover, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1934). “The state papers and other public writings of Herbert Hoover”

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

Herbert Hoover

Girl, Country, Mean

Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.3, Stanford University Press

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

Herbert Hoover

Country, Responsibility, Cities

Herbert Hoover (1934). “October 1, 1931, to March 4, 1933”

I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set-backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by the remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country.

Herbert Hoover

Country, Home, Israel

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

Herbert Hoover

Spiritual, Country, Greatness

Herbert Hoover (1951). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950”

I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

Herbert Hoover

Country, Baseball, Loss

Herbert Hoover, (2013). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941”, p.90, Read Books Ltd

I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

Herbert Hoover

Country, Baseball, Next Day

Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

Herbert Hoover

Country, Sound, Fundamentals

In a press conference, October 30, 1929.