Herbert Hoover
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
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 guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.
My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.
This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
No public man can be just a little crooked.
The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
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.Collection: Girl
We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.Collection: Presidential
Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.Collection: Calm
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.Collection: Suicide
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.Collection: Country
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.Collection: Presidential
Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.Collection: Past
We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.Collection: Reading
Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.Collection: Wisdom
Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.Collection: Future
Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.Collection: President
Prosperity is just around the corner.Collection: Wealth
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. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.Collection: Mistake
If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.Collection: Children
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.Collection: Freedom
There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.Collection: Bible
The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.Collection: Christian
The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.Collection: Men
There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.Collection: War
Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.Collection: Country
When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.Collection: Outcomes
The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.Collection: Jobs
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.Collection: Acceptance
The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruinCollection: Presidential
We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.Collection: Justice
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.Collection: Lakes
Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.Collection: Character
I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.Collection: War
I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set-backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by the remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country.Collection: Country
It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.Collection: Struggle
The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.Collection: Sports