"A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever e..." — Herbert Hoover

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.