Words matter. These are the best Herbert Hoover Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
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.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
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.
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
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.
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.
The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.
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.
My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
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.
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 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.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
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.
Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.
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.
At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys’ camp fire.
