Herbert Hoover
Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.Collection: Government
I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.Collection: Suffering
I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.Collection: Religious
Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.Collection: Agriculture
True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.Collection: Socialism
Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.Collection: Presidential
Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.Collection: Character
We do not need to burn down the house to kill the ratsCollection: House
The more complex the problems of the Nation become, the greater is the need for more and more advanced instruction.Collection: Needs
Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.Collection: Thinking
[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.Collection: Country
One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.Collection: Pistols
An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.Collection: Men
The supreme purpose of history is a better world.Collection: History
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.Collection: Depression
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. 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. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.Collection: Girl
. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.Collection: Peace
Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.Collection: Sacrifice
I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.Collection: Men
What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. It needs a moral mobilization against the hideous ideas of the police state and human slavery. I suggest that the United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. It is a proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. It is a proposal to redeem the concept of the United Nations to the high purpose for which it was created. It is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations. And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.Collection: Spiritual
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.Collection: Men
Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization 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.Collection: Engineering
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.Collection: Freedom
The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.Collection: Successful
Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its efficiency. Its worth depends on the use that is made of it... For the first time in human history we have available to us the ability to communicate simultaneously with millions of our fellowmen, to furnish entertainment, instruction, widening vision of national problems and national events. An obligation rests on us to see that it is devoted to real service and to develop the material that is transmitted into that which is really worthwhile.Collection: Real
I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live.Collection: Faith
Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.Collection: United States
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?Collection: Brother
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.Collection: Character
All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.Collection: Government
Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and every home. A continuation of the policies of the Republican party is fundamentally necessary to the future advancement of this progress and to the further building up of this prosperity.Collection: Jobs
Hunger is the mother of anarchy.Collection: Mother
To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.Collection: Jobs
Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.Collection: My Best Friend
I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.Collection: Baseball
I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'Collection: Country
I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.Collection: Baseball
I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.Collection: Running
In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression of such dimensions. There might have been a normal cyclical recession; but, with the usual timing, even that readjustment probably would not have taken place at that particular period, nor would it have been a "Great Depression.Collection: War
We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.Collection: Running
Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.Collection: Wisdom
A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.Collection: Winter
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.Collection: Baseball
You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.Collection: Political
The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.Collection: Today
I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation which is going forward in Palestine under Jewish auspices, and to add my expression to the sentiment among our people in favor of the realization of the age-old aspirations of the Jewish people for the restoration of their national homeland.Collection: Appreciation
[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.Collection: Sunday
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.Collection: Men