(August 10, 1874\u2013October 20, 1964), was the 31st President of the United States, 1929\u201333; Secretary of Commerce under both Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, 1921\u201328; served on the council of the American Relief Administration, 1919\u201321; U.S. Food Administrator during World War I, 1917\u201319; Commissioner for Belgian Relief, 1915\u201319; Chairman of the American Relief Committee in London, 1914\u201315; married Lou Henry, 1899; successful mining engineer, 1895\u20131914; graduated from Stanford University, 1895.<\/p>\n
On Monday, March 4, 1929, in his Inaugural Address, President Herbert Clark Hoover entreated:<\/p>\n
This occasion is not alone the administration of the most sacred oath which can be assumed by an American citizen. It is a dedication and consecration under God to the highest office in service of our people. I assume this trust in the humility of knowledge that only through the guidance of Almighty Providence can I hope to discharge its ever-increasing burdens. \u2026 <\/p>\n
Superficial observers seem to find no destiny for our abounding increase in population, in wealth and power. \u2026 They fail to realize that because of our abounding prosperity our youth are pressing more and more into our institutions of learning; that our people are seeking a larger vision through art, literature, science, and travel; that they are moving toward stronger moral and spiritual life. \u2026 <\/p>\n
Ours is a progressive people, but with a determination that progress must be based upon the foundation of experience. Ill-considered remedies for our faults brings only penalties after them. But if we hold the faith of the men in our mighty past who created these ideals, we shall leave them heightened and strengthened for our children. \u2026 <\/p>\n
In the presence of my countrymen, mindful of the solemnity of this occasion, knowing what the task means and the responsibility which it involves, I beg your tolerance, your aid, and your cooperation. I ask the help of Almighty God in this service to my country to which you have called me.3218<\/p>\n
In an address at Valley Forge, May 30, 1931, President Hoover stated:<\/p>\n
If those few thousand men endured that long winter of privation and suffering, humiliated by the despair of their countrymen, and deprived of support save their own indomitable will, yet held their countrymen to the faith, and by that holding held fast the freedom of America, what right have we to be of little faith?3219<\/p>\n
On Monday, April 27, 1931, in speaking before the Gridiron Club, President Herbert Hoover stated:<\/p>\n
If, by the grace of God, we have passed the worst of this storm, the future months will be easy. If we shall be called upon to endure more of this period, we must gird ourselves for even greater effort. \u2026 <\/p>\n
If we can maintain this courage and resolution we shall have written this new chapter in national life in terms to which our whole idealism has aspired. May God grant to us the spirit and strength to carry through to the end.3220<\/p>\n
On Sunday, October 18, 1931, in an address which began a nation-wide drive to aid the private relief agencies during the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover expressed:<\/p>\n
Time and time again the American people have demonstrated a spiritual quality, a capacity for unity of action, of generosity, a certainty of results in time of emergency that have made them great in the annals of the history of all nations. This is the time and this is the occasion when we must arouse that idealism, that spirit. \u2026 <\/p>\n
This civilization and this great complex, which we call American life, is builded and can alone survive upon the translation into individual action of that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago.<\/p>\n
Part of our national suffering today is from failure to observe these primary yet inexorable laws of human relationship. Modern society can not survive with the defense of Cain, \u201cAm I my brother\u2019s keeper?\u201d3221<\/p>\n
On Thursday, September 15, 1932, President Herbert Hoover addressed the leaders of the \u201cnational drive\u201d committee for voluntary relief agencies at the White House:<\/p>\n
Our tasks are definite. \u2026 that we maintain the spiritual impulses in our people for generous giving and generous service\u2014in the spirit that each is his brother\u2019s keeper. \u2026 <\/p>\n
Many a family today is carrying a neighbor family over the trough of this depression not alone with material aid but with that encouragement which maintains courage and faith.3222<\/p>\n
On October 4, 1932, in a campaign speech at Des Moines, Iowa, President Herbert Hoover stated:<\/p>\n
We won this battle to protect our people at home. We held the Gibraltar of world stability. The world today has a chance. It is growing in strength. Let that man who complains that things could not be worse thank God for this victory.3223<\/p>\n
On October 31, 1932, in an address at Madison Square Garden in New York, President Herbert Hoover warned of the collectivist color of the New Deal:<\/p>\n
To enter upon a series of deep changes, to embark upon this inchoate new deal which has been propounded in this campaign would be to undermine and destroy our American system. \u2026 <\/p>\n
No man who has not occupied my position in Washington can fully realize the constant battle which must be carried on against incompetence, corruption, tyranny of government expanded into business activities. \u2026 <\/p>\n
Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.3224<\/p>\n
In The Challenge of Liberty,<\/i> 1934, Herbert Clark Hoover declared:<\/p>\n
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term, \u201crugged individualism,\u201d I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.3225<\/p>\n
On September 17, 1935, in San Diego, California, Herbert Hoover expressed:<\/p>\n
Our Constitution is not alone the working plan of a great Federation of States under representative government. There is embedded in it also the vital principles of the American system of liberty. That system is based upon certain inalienable freedoms and protections which in no event the government may infringe and which we call the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n
It does not require a lawyer to interpret those provisions. They are as clear as the Ten Commandments. Among others the freedom of worship, freedom of speech and of the press, the right of peaceable assembly, equality before the law. \u2026 <\/p>\n
In them lies a spiritual right of men. Behind them is the conception which is the highest development of the Christian faith\u2014the conception of individual freedom with brotherhood.3226<\/p>\n
Herbert Hoover, in 1943, issued a joint statement along with Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. William H. Taft, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Alfred Smith, Alfred Landon, James M. Cox, and John W. Davis:<\/p>\n
Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is The Bible; on the political side, the Constitution.3227<\/p>\n
After his term in office, Herbert Clark Hoover sought a reorganization of the United Nations, excluding Communist countries. The speech, delivered to the American Newspaper Publishers Association, was broadcast across the nation on April 27, 1950:<\/p>\n
What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. It needs a moral mobilization against the hideous ideas of the police state and human slavery. \u2026 <\/p>\n
I suggest that the United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. If that is impractical, then a definite New United Front should be organized of those peoples who disavow communism, who stand for morals and religion, and who love freedom. \u2026 <\/p>\n
It is a proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. It is a proposal to redeem the concept of the United Nations to the high purpose for which it was created. It is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations.<\/p>\n
And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.3228<\/p>\n
Herbert Hoover spoke at a reception in honor of his eightieth birthday in West Branch, Iowa on August 10, 1954. In voicing concern over Socialism, he warned:<\/p>\n
I have witnessed the legacy of war in doubting minds, brutality, crime and debased morals. Moreover, I have witnessed on the ground in 20 nations the workings of the philosophy of that anti-Christ, Karl Marx.<\/p>\n
After these long years and from all these experiences, there rises constantly in my mind the forces which make for progress and those which may corrode away the safeguards of freedom in America. I want to say something about these forces but I shall endeavor to do so, not in the tones of Jeremiah but in the spirit of Saint Paul. \u2026 <\/p>\n
Our Founding Fathers did not invent the priceless boon of individual freedom and respect for the dignity of men. That great gift to mankind sprang from the Creator and not from governments.<\/p>\n
The Founding Fathers, with superb genius, welded together the safeguards of these freedoms. \u2026 Today the Socialist virus and poison gas generated by Karl Marx and Friedreich Engels have spread into every nation on the earth.<\/p>\n
Their dogma is absolute materialism which defies truth and religious faith. Their poisons are of many sorts. The preservation of the safeguards of liberty makes it imperative that we give heed to their every variety. \u2026 <\/p>\n
A nation is strong or weak, it thrives or perishes upon what it believes to be true. If our youth is rightly instructed in the faith of our fathers; in the traditions of our country; in the dignity of each individual man, then our power will be stronger than any weapon of destruction that man can devise.<\/p>\n
And now as to this whole gamut of Socialist infections, I say to you \u2026 God has blessed us with another wonderful word\u2014heritage. The great documents of that heritage are not from Karl Marx. They are from the Bible, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Within them alone can the safeguards of freedom survive. \u2026 <\/p>\n
These new frontiers give us other blessings. Not only do they expand our living but also they open new opportunities and new areas of adventure and enterprise. They open new vistas of beauty. They unfold the wonders of the atom and the heavens. Daily they prove the reality of an all-wise Supreme Giver of Law.3229<\/p>\n
Herbert Clark Hoover explained:<\/p>\n
The principle thing we can do, if we really want to make the world over again, is to try the use of the word \u201cold\u201d again. It was the \u201cold\u201d things that made this country the great nation it is.<\/p>\n
There is the old virtue of religious faith. There are the old virtues of integrity and truth. There is the old virtue of incorruptible service and honor in public service.3230<\/p>\n
Freedom is an open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and of human dignity. With the preservation of these moral and spiritual qualities and with God\u2019s grace will come further greatness for our country.3231<\/p>\n
Herbert Clark Hoover, who was a member of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, stated:<\/p>\n
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.3232<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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