Quotes from Herbert Hoover

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate. (on the birth of his granddaughter)

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

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

No one ever listened themselves out of a job.

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.

We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.

There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.

the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.

There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual, or we shall have a planned society that means dictation no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no half-way ground. They cannot be mixed.

A sabedoria não consiste tanto em saber o que fazer no final, mas em saber o que fazer em seguida.

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

Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.

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.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

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.