Top 271 Quotes & Sayings by Herbert Hoover
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.
The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.
The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.
We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.
Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
All men are equal before fish.
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity.
Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints.
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
No public man can be just a little crooked.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
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