Herbert Hoover Quotes

Author Image

Herbert Hoover

Profession : President

Birth : August 10, 1874

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.

Herbert Hoover

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Herbert Hoover

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.

Herbert Hoover

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Herbert Hoover

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Herbert Hoover

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Herbert Hoover

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.

Herbert Hoover

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Herbert Hoover

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

Herbert Hoover

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.

Herbert Hoover

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

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 guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Herbert Hoover

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Herbert Hoover

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.

Herbert Hoover

The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys' camp fire.

Herbert Hoover

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.

Herbert Hoover

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.

Herbert Hoover

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.

Herbert Hoover

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Herbert Hoover

This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.

Herbert Hoover