Herbert Hoover

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

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

It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack

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

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

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

Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

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

Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.