Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for… — 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… — 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… — 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
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
It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph… — 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
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. — 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
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living. — 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
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
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an… — 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
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is… — 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