Herbert Hoover Quotes
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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.
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.
To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.
Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.
We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.
Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."
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.
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.