Top 100 Herbert Hoover Quotes
#1. The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
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#2. Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
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#3. Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
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#4. In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
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#5. Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.
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#6. It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack
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#7. The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.
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#8. When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
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#9. Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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#10. Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.
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#12. Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.
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#13. At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.
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#14. The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin
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#15. Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
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#18. The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment ... has no place in the gospel of American progress.
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#19. The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.
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#21. 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.
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#22. Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.
(on the birth of his granddaughter)
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#23. There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.
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#24. Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.
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#25. [N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
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#26. I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.
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#27. In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
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#28. Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand ... "
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#29. Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
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#30. Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.
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#31. There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure
that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.
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#32. Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
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#33. Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time
making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.
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#34. 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.
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#35. Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.
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#36. I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.
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#37. New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
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#38. The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.
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#39. Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.
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#40. To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.
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#41. American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, Am I my brother's keeper?
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#43. I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.
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#44. Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
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#45. In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon his cattle. The white race cannot survive without dairy products.
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#46. A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.
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#47. We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.
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#48. Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
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#49. The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.
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#50. We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
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#51. Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement
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#52. The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.
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#53. I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.
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#54. Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.
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#55. The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
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#56. My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere,
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#57. Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
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#58. Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.
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#59. Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.
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#61. There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
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#62. The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.
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#63. Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
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#64. It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.
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#65. It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
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#66. The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt ... No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.
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#67. When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
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#68. Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
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#69. Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
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#71. 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.
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#72. The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
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#73. Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.
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#74. Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
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#75. The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.
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#76. There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals etc ... he who seeks for guidance ... may look inside its covers & find illumination
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#77. The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
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#78. Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it.
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#79. The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
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#80. One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.
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#81. An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.
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#82. 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.
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#83. 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.
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#84. Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.
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#85. Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
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#87. I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.
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#88. Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
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#89. Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.
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#90. Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
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#91. One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.
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#92. 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.
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#93. 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.
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#94. Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.
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#95. If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
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#96. True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
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#97. Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
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#98. We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
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#99. Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
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#100. 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.
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