Quotes from 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.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

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

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

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.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

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.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

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

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.