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

“Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.”

“I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.”

“Herbert Hoover First State of the Union Address”

“Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.”

“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”

“As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our people who are in honest difficulties.”