298 Quotes by Herbert Hoover

One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one’s predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.

America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments.

Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don’t turn and look back on any behind you.

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.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people’s souls and thoughts.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man’s land between honesty and dishonesty.

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own – our American system.