298 Quotes by Herbert Hoover

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

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

"We have gold because we cannot trust governments"

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

"Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger."

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

"If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated."

"In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces."

"Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement."