Country Quotes by Herbert Hoover

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

— Herbert Hoover

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be…

— Herbert Hoover

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

— Herbert Hoover

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American.…

— Herbert Hoover

Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government…

— Herbert Hoover

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence…

— Herbert Hoover

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence…

— Herbert Hoover

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the…

— Herbert Hoover

I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in…

— Herbert Hoover

I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with…

— Herbert Hoover

I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World…

— Herbert Hoover

I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed…

— Herbert Hoover

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can…

— Herbert Hoover