Herbert Hoover
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.Collection: Finance
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.Collection: Men
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.Collection: Science
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be 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.Collection: Family
Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.Collection: Family
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.Collection: Freedom
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Business
Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.Collection: Freedom
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Power
Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.Collection: Alone
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.Collection: Wisdom
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.Collection: Religion
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.Collection: War
Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.Collection: Government
We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.Collection: Government
True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.Collection: Government
Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints.Collection: Alone
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity.Collection: Future
The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.Collection: Peace
Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.Collection: Peace
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.Collection: Happiness
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.Collection: Power
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.Collection: Business
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.Collection: History
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.Collection: Respect
America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.Collection: Power
A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.Collection: Power
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.Collection: Sports
Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.Collection: Peace
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.Collection: Politics
Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.Collection: Freedom
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.Collection: Teacher
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.Collection: Men
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.Collection: Wisdom
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.Collection: Business
I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.Collection: Food
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.Collection: Government
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.Collection: Power
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.Collection: Freedom
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.Collection: Respect
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.Collection: Leadership
All men are equal before fish.Collection: Funny
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.Collection: Politics
At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.Collection: Age
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.Collection: Government
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.