298 Quotes by Herbert Hoover

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

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

Prohibition was a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive.

Be patient and calm - for no one can catch fish in anger.

Children are our most valuable resource.