Herbert Hoover
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.Collection: Simple
Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.Collection: Science
Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.Collection: Opportunity
The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.Collection: Problem
Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.Collection: Children
It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.Collection: Men
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.Collection: War
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.Collection: Men
National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.Collection: Character
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.Collection: Government
I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.Collection: Country
Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!Collection: People
The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.Collection: America
We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts.Collection: Bible
Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.Collection: Doors
The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.Collection: Discovery
There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals...he who seeks for guidance...may look inside its covers and find illumination...Collection: Book
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.Collection: Law
I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.Collection: Opportunity
Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.Collection: Sports
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.Collection: Depression
The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway - and with violence.Collection: Peace
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.Collection: Teacher
The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.Collection: Bible
Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.Collection: Children
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.Collection: Running
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.Collection: People
The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.Collection: Greatness
I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.Collection: Depression
I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.Collection: Baseball
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.Collection: Men
It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.Collection: Law
Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocateCollection: Jobs
New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.Collection: Travel
The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.Collection: Uplifting
The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.Collection: Practice
Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.Collection: Depression
The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.Collection: Recovery
Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.Collection: Health
Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.Collection: Opportunity
In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.Collection: Depression
The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.Collection: Men
The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Character
Children add to the wonder of being alive.Collection: Children
We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.Collection: Government
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 attackCollection: Office
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.Collection: Honesty
Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.Collection: Gun