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Herbert Hoover

(1874–1964) Statesperson

290 quotes in 1411 categories

Herbert Hoover’s perspective blends economic insight with a stoic outlook, and these 290 quotations reflect that balance. His words on policy, responsibility, and personal conduct provide a window into early twentieth‑century leadership.

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Herbert Hoover was a statesperson, best known for The problem of prosperity.

Quick Facts About Herbert Hoover

Born: August 10, 1874
Died: October 20, 1964
Profession: Statesperson
Notable works: The problem of prosperity

About Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. As a member of the Republican Party, he served as the third United States secretary of commerce from 1921 to 1928 before being elected president in 1928. His presidency was dominated by the Great Depression, and his policies and methods to combat it were seen as inadequate and overly conservative. Amid his unpopularity, he decisively lost re-election to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

“Children are our most valuable resource.”

Child

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Prosperity is just around the corner.

Around the corner

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Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

Baseball

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

Listened

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I outlived the bastards.

Bastards

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Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

Criticism

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Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.

Food

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Children add to the wonder of being alive.

Add

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The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

Bible

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We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

Claims

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Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.

Ahead

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Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

Feds

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We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

Battle

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I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

Baseball

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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Honor

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American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

American business

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The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

Baseball

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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Knowing

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The more complex the problems of the Nation become, the greater is the need for more and more advanced instruction.

Complex problems

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It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction…

Accounts

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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…

Future

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The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

Affair

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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…

Alone

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American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with…

American life

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

Able

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I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over,…

Balls

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So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won.…

Concerned

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Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks…

Chance

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At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties…

Baseball

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When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy…

America and americans

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The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the…

American people

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“There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of…

Freedom

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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…

Aggression

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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…

Action

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I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation…

Add

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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…

America

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I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for…

American people

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“Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the one named War has gone - at least for a while. But Famine, Pestilence…

Famine

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The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come…

Creating

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Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph…

America

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Herbert Hoover by topic

Men (48) Presidential (44) Politics (41) People (28) Government (26) Religion (24) Life (22) Freedom (20) Economic (20) America (17) Time (16) Ifs (15) Children (15) Business (15) Baseball (15) War (13) Nations (13) Fishing (13) Country (13) Spirit (12) Should (12) Progress (12) Opportunity (12) Fish (12) Education (12)