Herbert Clark Hoover quotes Born: 08/10/1874 Died: 10/20/1964 Country: usa

• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. (Herbert Hoover) [men/war/youth/fight]
• 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. (Herbert Hoover) [paradox/dictator/power/speech]
• When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. (Herbert Hoover) [government/morals/people]
• It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. (Herbert Hoover) [business/government/government/business]
• New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. (Herbert Hoover) [science/willpower]
• About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. (Herbert Hoover) [time/think]
• 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. (Herbert Hoover) [construction/war/politics]
• Children are our most valuable resorce. (Herbert Hoover)
• Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. (Herbert Hoover) [competition/basis/protection/civilization & progress]
• Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. (Herbert Hoover) [words]
• 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. (Herbert Hoover) [depression/action/wounds/action]
• If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. (Herbert Hoover) [right/government/right/start]
• 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. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential. (Herbert Hoover) [chance/action/service/land]
• The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. (Herbert Hoover) [women]
• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. (Herbert Hoover) [fishing/more/]
• A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. (Herbert Hoover)
• About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. (Herbert Hoover)
• All men are equal before fish. (Herbert Hoover)
• America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. (Herbert Hoover)
• Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. (Herbert Hoover)
• I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. (Herbert Hoover)
• It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. (Herbert Hoover)
• Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. (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)
• No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. (Herbert Hoover)
• No public man can be just a little crooked. (Herbert Hoover)
• 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. (Herbert Hoover)
• Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. (Herbert Hoover)
• The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. (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)

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