Herbert Hoover Children Quotations

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

Reports to the Surgeon General... represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate-are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral andspiritual welfare of our people. The participation of women in elections has produced a keener realization of the importance of these questions and has contributed to higher national ideals. Moreover, it is through them that our national ideals are ingrained in our children.

Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.

Children add to the wonder of being alive.

In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon his cattle. The white race cannot survive without dairy products.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.