Quotes By Herbert Hoover

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

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

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

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

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

No public man can be just a little crooked.

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.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

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

All men are equal before fish.

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.

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 myself.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

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

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.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.