7 Quotes by Herbert Hoover about children


  • Author Herbert Hoover
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    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.

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

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  • Author Herbert Hoover
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    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.

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