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
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Words, Idealism, Procrastination, Getting Going, Inaction, Ideals
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Leaders, Intelligence, Leadership
America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Experiment
All men are equal before fish.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Equality
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Youth
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
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
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Government, Youth, Debt
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
American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Money
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
—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
Topics: Poverty, The Poor
If you take a worm’s eye view of the ills in American life and our foreign relations; you may worry that we are entering the decline and fall of the greatest nation in history. If you take a bird’s eye view you will see the increasing skills, growing productivity, and the expansion of education and understanding, with improving health and growing strength all over our nation. And from whence came this strength? It lies in freedom of men’s initiative and the rewards of their efforts. It comes from our devotion to liberty and religious faith. We will have no decline and fall of this nation, provided we stand guard against the evils which would weaken these forces.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Liberty
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Peace
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Success & Failure, Opportunity
Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy-making among free men.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Opinions, Unity
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
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
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: Economy, Law
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
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
New discoveries in science … will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Science
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Honor
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Progress
Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Government
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Freedom
When I decided to go into politics I weighted the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn’t surprised. I was better able to handle it.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Acceptance, Realistic Expectations
The Lord does not deduct from the hours of man those spent in fishing.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Sports
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
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