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MISSION AND PHILOSOPHY
The Hoover Institution's academic character, unique among policy research organizations, allows freedom of inquiry unencumbered by burdensome hierarchy.
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Now more than four decades old, Herbert Hoover's 1959 statement to the Board of Trustees of Stanford University on the purpose and scope of the Hoover Institution (see text below) continues to guide and define its mission in the twenty-first century.
The principles of individual, economic, and political freedom; private enterprise; and
representative government were fundamental to the vision of the Institution's founder. By
collecting knowledge, generating ideas, and disseminating both, the Institution seeks to
secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit government
intrusion into the lives of individuals.
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"This Institution supports the Constitution of the United States, its Bill of Rights, and its method of representative government. Both our social and economic systems are based on
private enterprise from which springs initiative and ingenuity..Ours is a system where the
Federal Government should undertake no governmental, social or economic action,
except where local government, or the people, cannot undertake it for themselves. The
overall mission of this Institution is, from its records, to recall the voice of experience
against the making of war, and by the study of these records and their publication, to
recall man's endeavors to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the
safeguards of the American way of life. This Institution is not, and must not be, a mere
library. But with these purposes as its goal, the Institution itself must constantly and
dynamically point the road to peace, to personal freedom, and to the safeguards of the
American system."
—Herbert Hoover, Founder
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