298 Quotes by Herbert Hoover

A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression of such dimensions. There might have been a normal cyclical recession; but, with the usual timing, even that readjustment probably would not have taken place at that particular period, nor would it have been a "Great Depression.

In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon his cattle. The white race cannot survive without dairy products.

I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.

I outlived the bastards.

Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.