[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image