Herbert Hoover Quotes

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

My country ... gave me schooling independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end.

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 mself.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.