298 Quotes by Herbert Hoover

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.

It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats.

The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.

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

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing – and they cannot pray all the time!