Explore Quotes by Herbert Hoover

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

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

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

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

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

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

All men are equal before fish.