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LANDSLIDE
- A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover
In association with Stamats Communications and Iowa Public
Television, The Duncan Group has completed a one-hour public
television biography called LANDSLIDE - A Portrait of President
Herbert Hoover.
Notable Hoover Quotes
American Individualism
"Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the
intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage,
and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these
ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which
the spirit of America stands."
"Our
individualism differs from all others because it embraces
these great ideals: that while we build our society upon the
attainment of individuals, we shall safeguard to every individual
an equality of opportunity to take that position in the community
to which his intelligence, character, ability, and ambition
entitle him; that we keep the social solution free from frozen
strata of classes; that we shall stimulate effort of each
individual to achievement; that through an enlarging sense
of responsibility and understanding we shall assist him to
this attainment; while he in turn must stand up to the emery
wheel of competition."
"Our
individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on
conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand
for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism
because it is the method of American achievement."
Self-Reliance and Independence
"My
boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without
the help of anybody, anywhere."
If
a man "has not made a million dollars by the time he
is forty he is not worth much."
Government
"…
the way to the Nation's greatness is the path of self-reliance,
independence, and steadfastness in times of trial and stress."
"Any
practice of business which would dominate the country by its
own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity.
Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction
of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through
bureaucracy."
Poverty and Hunger
"We
in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty
than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse
is vanishing from among us... We shall soon with the help
of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished
from this nation."
"Twenty
million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they
shall be fed."
- Defending aid to Russia, 1921.
Economics
"The primary cause of the Great Depression was the war
of 1914-1918."
"The
most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is
the restoration of confidence."
"You
know, the only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're
too damn greedy."
On Franklin D. Roosevelt
"... amiable, pleasant, anxious to be of service, very
badly informed and of comparatively little vision."
American Intervention
"We cannot become the world's policeman unless we are
prepared to sacrifice millions of American lives - and probably
some day see all the world against us. In time, they would
envisage us as the world's greatest bully, not as the world's
greatest idealist."
For additional information about LANDSLIDE - A Portrait of
President Herbert Hoover, email Chip@DuncanEntertainment.com.
www.IPTV.org
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NEW:
LANDSLIDE - Video Clip
Q&A with the Producers of LANDSLIDE - A Portrait of President
Herbert Hoover
Ten
Interesting Facts About President Herbert Hoover
Interview
Transcripts: LANDSLIDE - A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover
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The film premieres nationwide
on PBS on MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 - 10:00 P.M. EASTERN TIME, 9:00
P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
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2009 The Duncan Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any unauthorized
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