Herbert Quotes

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.

The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

Children add to the wonder of being alive.

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

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

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.

The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.

We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

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.

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

The more complex the problems of the Nation become, the greater is the need for more and more advanced instruction.

It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

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.

Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

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.