298 Quotes by Herbert Hoover

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

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

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.

National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

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.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.

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