Quotes By Herbert Hoover
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover
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
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.
Herbert Hoover
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Hoover
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
Herbert Hoover
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
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
Herbert Hoover
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
Herbert Hoover
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
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
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