298 Quotes by Herbert Hoover

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.

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.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.

Hunger is the mother of anarchy.

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

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.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.