Presidential Statement of the Day
By Herbert Hoover, in a message addressed to the National Conference of Parents and Teachers, 5 May 1929:
The state is all of us. Some of us have no home, some have known no school, some are outside the church. The state alone embraces us all. It is the one family to which we all belong, either by birth or by adoption. It is the one loyalty we all acknowledge, the one shelter we all enjoy, and the one discipline we must all accept.