Herbert Hoover: "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land" (1928)

Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing…We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not reached the goal, but given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate.

~ Herbert Hoover, from his speech accepting the Republican Party nomination for President, August 11, 1928