Herbert Hoover Quote

Wages have increased, the cost of living has decreased. The job of every man and woman has been made more secure. We have in this short period decreased the fear of poverty, the fear of unemployment, the fear of old age; and these fears that are the greatest calamities of human kind.

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928) - Campaign speech in New York (22 October 1928)