Quotes By Herbert Hoover

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

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.

This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.

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

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.

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

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.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

All men are equal before fish.

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.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

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

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

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