Herbert Hoover

Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.

— Herbert Hoover

“Children are our greatest natural resource.”

— Herbert Hoover

Hunger is the mother of anarchy.

— Herbert Hoover

No public man can be just a little crooked.

— Herbert Hoover

All men are equal before fish.

— Herbert Hoover

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Herbert Hoover

I outlived the bastards.

— Herbert Hoover

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

— Herbert Hoover

We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Herbert Hoover

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

— Herbert Hoover

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

— Herbert Hoover

Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

— Herbert Hoover

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

— Herbert Hoover

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."

— Herbert Hoover

We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's…

— Herbert Hoover

The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys'…

— Herbert Hoover

The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is…

— Herbert Hoover

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

— Herbert Hoover

New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still…

— Herbert Hoover

Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

— Herbert Hoover

We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.

— Herbert Hoover

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the…

— Herbert Hoover

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells…

— Herbert Hoover

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment...…

— Herbert Hoover

In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have…

— Herbert Hoover

Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and…

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Herbert Hoover

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without…

— Herbert Hoover

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found…

— Herbert Hoover

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns…

— Herbert Hoover

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where…

— Herbert Hoover

In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare…

— Herbert Hoover

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

— 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

Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its…

— Herbert Hoover

To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the…

— Herbert Hoover

Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this…

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Herbert Hoover