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Herbert Hoover Quotes

The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys’ camp fire.

– Herbert Hoover

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

– Herbert Hoover

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

– Herbert Hoover

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

– Herbert Hoover

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

– Herbert Hoover

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

– Herbert Hoover

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

– Herbert Hoover

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

– Herbert Hoover

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

– Herbert Hoover

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

– Herbert Hoover

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

– Herbert Hoover

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

– Herbert Hoover

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

– Herbert Hoover

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

– Herbert Hoover

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

– Herbert Hoover

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

– Herbert Hoover

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.

– Herbert Hoover

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

– Herbert Hoover

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

– Herbert Hoover

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

– Herbert Hoover

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

– Herbert Hoover

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

– Herbert Hoover

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

– Herbert Hoover

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

– Herbert Hoover

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

– Herbert Hoover

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

– Herbert Hoover

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

– Herbert Hoover

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

– Herbert Hoover

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

– Herbert Hoover

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer – or maybe president.

– Herbert Hoover

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