Herbert Hoover Quotes

Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

E Pluribus Unum, the Latin phrase on the great seal of the United States literally translated means one from many. We need to reattach pluribus to unum—the many to the one.

America’s history is a continual process of trying to live up to our ideals, falling short, succeeding in some places and trying again others

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

Here will be preserved all ... the records that bind State to State and the hearts of all our people in an indissoluble union.

People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.

My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for and President Kennedy died for.

The modern idea of citizenship goes some way to accommodating the tension between solidarity and diversity. Citizenship is not an ethnic, blood-and-soil concept, but a more abstract political idea - implying equal legal, political and social rights (and duties) for people inhabiting a given national space.

If citizenship means anything, it means sharing the pleasures and pains of American life.

No solid South, no solid North, save when solid for the flag and the Union.

The first requisite for the progress of a nation is the brotherhood and unity amongst sections of the society.

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

All our idealisms must be those of future social goals in which all can participate… No mere doubtful triumphs of the past, which redound to the glory of only one of our transnationalities, can satisfy us. It must be a future America, on which all can unite, which pulls us irresistibly toward it, as we understand each other more warmly.

We must remember that although we come from different backgrounds and ideologies, we're all part of this great experiment in self-governance. We're all united by common values of liberty, justice, and equality of opportunity, even if we don't always agree on how to achieve them.