Herbert Hoover Quotes
Herbert Hoover was the 31ST American President born on August 10, 1874, and died on October 20, 1964.
These Presidential Quotes by Herbert Hoover will help you know more about freedom and its challenges.
Herbert Hoover Quotes on Engineering, Challenges, Freedom, And Individualism
- “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “Children are our greatest natural resource.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “All men are equal before fish.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure — that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they’re too damned greedy.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the one named War has gone – at least for a while. But Famine, Pestilence and Death are still charging over the earth. Hunger is a silent visitor who comes like a shadow. He sits besides every anxious mother three times each day. He brings not alone suffering and sorrow, but fear and terror. He carriers disorder and the paralysis of government, and even its downfall. He is more destructive than armies, not only in human life but in morals. All of the values of right living melt before his invasions, and every gain of civilisation crumbles.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “No one ever listened themselves out of a job.” ― Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover : the Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933
- “I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named after him.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.” ― 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
- “We have gold because we cannot trust governments” ― Herbert Hoover
- “I am sure I’d have made a better all-around man if I hadn’t lost so much time just making a living.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one’s predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “…the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual, or we shall have a planned society that means dictation no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no half-way ground. They cannot be mixed.” ― Herbert Hoover
- “Two courses were open to us. We might have done nothing. That would have been utter ruin. Instead, we met the situation with proposals to private business and to the Congress of the most gigantic program of economic defense and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic. We put that program in action. Our measures have repelled these attacks of fear and panic. . . . We have used the credit of the Government to aid and protect our institutions, both public and private. We have provided methods and assurances that none suffer from hunger or cold amongst our people. We have instituted measures to assist our farmers and our homeowners. We have created vast agencies for employment.” ― 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 The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.” ― Herbert Hoover
- Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. Herbert Hoover
- The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men. Herbert Hoover
- Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. – Herbert Hoover
- Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. ― Herbert Hoover
- 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. ― Herbert Hoover
- It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. ― Herbert Hoover
- Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. ― Herbert Hoover
- Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession. ― Herbert Hoover
- A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. ― Herbert Hoover
- If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. ― Herbert Hoover
- 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. ― Herbert Hoover
- In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. ― Herbert Hoover
- 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. ― Herbert Hoover
- New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. ― Herbert Hoover
- It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war. ― Herbert Hoover
- Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom. ― Herbert Hoover
- When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. ― Herbert Hoover
- 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. ― Herbert Hoover
- 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. ― Herbert Hoover
- The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. Herbert Hoover The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread. ― Herbert Hoover
- 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. ― Herbert Hoover
- One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. ― 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
- Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunities for both good and evil. ― Herbert Hoover
- Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. ― Herbert Hoover
- Competition is not only the basis of protection for the consumer but is the incentive to progress. ― Herbert Hoover
- 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 people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity. ― Herbert Hoover
- Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. ― Herbert Hoover
- 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. Herbert Hoover
- 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. 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
- Children are our most valuable natural resource. Herbert Hoover
- 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. Herbert Hoover
- The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage. 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 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. ― Herbert Hoover
- 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. ― Herbert Hoover
- Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness. ― Herbert Hoover
- 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. ― Herbert Hoover
- We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants. ― Herbert Hoover
- Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty. ― Herbert Hoover
- Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, develop his own talents, free to earn, spend, save, and acquire property as the security of his old age and his family. ― Herbert Hoover
- The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. ― Herbert Hoover
- Wisdom oftentimes consists of knowing what to do next. ― Herbert Hoover