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.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: America
All men are equal before fish.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Equality
Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Baseball
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Peace
Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Government
New discoveries in science … will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Science
Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Government
Once upon a time my opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Economy
Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Politics
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: America
The Lord does not deduct from the hours of man those spent in fishing.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Sports
Liberty is a thing of the spirit-to be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, and to speak without fear-free to challenge wrong and oppression with surety of justice.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Liberty
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: America
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. It is for them that we must win the war-it is for them that we must make a just and lasting peace. For the world of tomorrow, about which all of us are dreaming and planning, will be carried forward by the boys of today.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Children
In America today we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than in any land. The poorhouse has vanished from amongst us.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: The Poor, Poverty
If you take a worm’s eye view of the ills in American life and our foreign relations; you may worry that we are entering the decline and fall of the greatest nation in history. If you take a bird’s eye view you will see the increasing skills, growing productivity, and the expansion of education and understanding, with improving health and growing strength all over our nation. And from whence came this strength? It lies in freedom of men’s initiative and the rewards of their efforts. It comes from our devotion to liberty and religious faith. We will have no decline and fall of this nation, provided we stand guard against the evils which would weaken these forces.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Liberty
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Leaders, Leadership, Intelligence
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Wisdom
All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Progress
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Getting Going, Procrastination, Idealism, Ideals, Inaction, Words
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Youth
The future of nations cannot be frozen … cannot be foreseen. It we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway-and with violence.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: History
Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Soul
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Freedom
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. 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 friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Patriotism, Gratitude, Hope, Blessings, Country
The supreme purpose of history is a better world.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: History
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Honor
America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Experiment
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: War
American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
—Herbert Hoover
Topics: Money
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