Famous Herbert Hoover Quotations

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"In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited."
by Herbert Hoover
"About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
by Herbert Hoover
"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
by Herbert Clark Hoover
"When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned."
by Herbert Clark Hoover
"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus."
by Herbert Hoover
"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
by Herbert Hoover
"America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose."
by Herbert Hoover
"Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt."
by Herbert Clark Hoover
"Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege."
by Herbert Hoover
"I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him."
by Herbert Clark Hoover
"It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man."
by Herbert Clark Hoover
"Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe."
by Herbert Clark Hoover
"My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope."
by Herbert Hoover
"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."
by Herbert Clark Hoover
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war."
by Herbert Hoover
"Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die."
by Herbert Hoover
"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself."
by Herbert Clark Hoover
"There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing."
by Herbert Clark Hoover
"What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us."
by President Herbert Hoover
"Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned"
by Herbert Hoover
"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next."
by Herbert Clark Hoover
"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."
by Herbert Hoover
"Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs."
by Herbert Hoover
"Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs."
by Herbert Hoover
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
by Herbert Hoover
"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next."
by Herbert Hoover
"I would wish that the women of our country could embrace ... [the responsibilities] of citizenship as peculiarly their own. If they could appl..."
by Herbert Hoover
"In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual we..."
by Herbert Hoover
"More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining not only in the..."
by Herbert Hoover
"The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must..."
by Herbert Hoover


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