Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
“Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere, — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share
