Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Herbert Hoover (American Statesman)

Herbert Hoover (1874–1964,) fully Herbert Clark Hoover, was an American Republican political leader who 31st president of the U.S. 1929–33. As president, he was faced with the long-term problems of the Depression. He held office during the onset of the Great Depression.

Born in West Branch, Iowa, Hoover trained in mining engineering at Stanford University. He worked in this field in the U.S., Australia, and China and founded his own successful mining firm in 1908. He led the Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the U.S. Food Administration director, and served as the third U.S. Secretary of Commerce. His leadership made him a popular public figure and heralded his political career.

The Great Depression, beginning with the stock market crash in October 1929, overshadowed President Hoover’s administration. He demanded private relief rather than large-scale government programs. His popularity plummeted, and the shantytowns that sprang up around the country were called Hoovervilles after him.

Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Hoover in 1932. He retired to private life until World War II, when he organized civilian relief operations in Europe. He later headed the Hoover Commissions (1947–49, 1953–55,) which studied the executive branch of government and suggested many administrative and policy reforms later adopted.

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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
Topics: Law, Economy

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Honor

Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Government

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: America

New discoveries in science … will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Science

America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Experiment

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.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: America

All men are equal before fish.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Equality

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: History

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Government

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
—Herbert Hoover

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Money

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Idealism, Inaction, Ideals, Procrastination, Getting Going, Words

The Lord does not deduct from the hours of man those spent in fishing.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Sports

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Soul

A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Freedom

Liberty is a thing of the spirit-to be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, and to speak without fear-free to challenge wrong and oppression with surety of justice.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Liberty

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Debt, Government, Youth

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Success & Failure, Opportunity

Once upon a time my opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Economy

The future of nations cannot be frozen … cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway-and with violence.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: History

Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Baseball

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Youth

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Wisdom

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Freedom

No public man can be a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man’s-land between honesty and dishonesty.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Honesty

In America today we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than in any land. The poorhouse has vanished from amongst us.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Poverty, The Poor

Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy-making among free men.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Unity, Opinions

Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Politics

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Progress

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