Quotation by Herbert Hoover

Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far- reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), U.S. president. The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928, p. 29, Stanford University (1928).

Reflections on the American character, as exemplified by Prohibition.
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