Herbert Hoover quotes
Born
August 10, 1874 West Branch, Iowa, U.S.
Died
October 20, 1964.
Occupation
President.
Herbert Hoover was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
– Herbert Hoover
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
– Herbert Hoover
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
– Herbert Hoover
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
– Herbert Hoover
This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.
– Herbert Hoover
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
– Herbert Hoover
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
– Herbert Hoover
Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
– Herbert Hoover
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.
– Herbert Hoover
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
– Herbert Hoover
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
– Herbert Hoover
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
– Herbert Hoover
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
– Herbert Hoover
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
– Herbert Hoover
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
– Herbert Hoover
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.
– Herbert Hoover
We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.
– Herbert Hoover
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
– Herbert Hoover
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
– Herbert Hoover
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
– Herbert Hoover
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
– Herbert Hoover
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
– Herbert Hoover
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.
– Herbert Hoover
No public man can be just a little crooked.
– Herbert Hoover
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
– Herbert Hoover
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.
– Herbert Hoover
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.
– Herbert Hoover
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.
– Herbert Hoover
At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
– Herbert Hoover
A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
– Herbert Hoover
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
– Herbert Hoover
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
– Herbert Hoover
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.
– Herbert Hoover
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
– Herbert Hoover
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
– Herbert Hoover
The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
– Herbert Hoover
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
– Herbert Hoover
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
– Herbert Hoover
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
– Herbert Hoover
All men are equal before fish.
– Herbert Hoover
True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
– Herbert Hoover
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
– Herbert Hoover
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
– Herbert Hoover