Top 271 Quotes & Sayings by Herbert Hoover - Page 5

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.

Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.

The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression of such dimensions. There might have been a normal cyclical recession; but, with the usual timing, even that readjustment probably would not have taken place at that particular period, nor would it have been a "Great Depression.

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.

Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.