298 Quotes by Herbert Hoover

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

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

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is 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.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.