World Quotes by Herbert Hoover

11 World quotes by Herbert Hoover

Hoover’s concise statements provide a snapshot of his early‑20th‑century outlook on global affairs, distilled into eleven straightforward lines.

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Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

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The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

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Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

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One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from…

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The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will…

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Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of…

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Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours…

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Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the…

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

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Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of…

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What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red…

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“No one ever listened themselves out of a job.”

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Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

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It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and…

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Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They…

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

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“Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in…

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When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when…

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My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere,

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If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on…

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The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of…

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