Top 100 Quotes About Herbert Hoover
#1. Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.
Tallulah Bankhead
#2. Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'.
Harry S. Truman
#3. Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.
Joseph Cummins
#4. Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.
Tim Johnson
#5. Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration.
Paul Sarbanes
#6. I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.
Lou Henry Hoover
#7. President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.
Sam Ewing
#8. The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover's aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover
Rexford Tugwell
#9. Look what happened the last time a Republican president tried to fix a doomed national economy. Remember Herbert Hoover?
Hunter S. Thompson
#10. I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.
Christopher Buckley
#11. Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.
Joseph J. Romm
#12. But as Lindbergh's friend former president Herbert Hoover instructed, "When you had been in politics long enough, you learned not to say things just because they are true."21
Winston Groom
#13. I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.
Paul Muni
#14. In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children.
Johnny Carson
#15. What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.
Robert Dallek
#16. Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
Barry Eichengreen
#17. 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
#18. The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.
Herbert Hoover
#19. The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Herbert Hoover
#20. In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.
Herbert Hoover
#21. Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Herbert Hoover
#23. About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover
#24. Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
Herbert Hoover
#25. In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert Hoover
#26. The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
Herbert Hoover
#27. Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.
Herbert Hoover
#28. Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.
Herbert Hoover
#29. Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
Herbert Hoover
#31. Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.
Herbert Hoover
#33. 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
Herbert Hoover
#34. The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.
Herbert Hoover
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
Herbert Hoover
#38. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#39. When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover
#40. It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.
Herbert Hoover
#41. What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism ... And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.
Herbert Hoover
#42. Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Hoover
#43. Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.
Herbert Hoover
#44. 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
#46. We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts.
Herbert Hoover
#47. Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover
#48. So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I
have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.
Herbert Hoover
#49. A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
Herbert Hoover
#50. Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.
Herbert Hoover
#51. When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
Herbert Hoover
#52. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#53. The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin
Herbert Hoover
#54. Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
Herbert Hoover
#55. We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats
Herbert Hoover
#56. National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.
Herbert Hoover
#58. We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.
Herbert Hoover
#59. The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.
Herbert Hoover
#61. We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.
Herbert Hoover
#62. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#63. The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
Herbert Hoover
#64. 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
#65. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#66. I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.
Herbert Hoover
#68. 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
#69. Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.
(on the birth of his granddaughter)
Herbert Hoover
#70. The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.
Herbert Hoover
#71. There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.
Herbert Hoover
#72. Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.
Herbert Hoover
#73. Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
Herbert Hoover
#74. [N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
Herbert Hoover
#75. America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover
#76. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#77. In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
Herbert Hoover
#78. Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand ... "
Herbert Hoover
#79. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#80. Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.
Herbert Hoover
#81. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#82. Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.
Herbert Hoover
#83. The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.
Herbert Hoover
#84. The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.
Herbert Hoover
#85. 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
#86. I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.
Herbert Hoover
#87. [Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.
Herbert Hoover
#88. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#89. I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.
Herbert Hoover
#90. At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
Herbert Hoover
#91. Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
Herbert Hoover
#92. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#93. 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
#94. About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover
#95. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#96. You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.
Herbert Hoover
#97. 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.
Herbert Hoover
#98. New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
Herbert Hoover
#99. Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover
#100. 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
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