Quotes by Herbert Hoover

About Herbert Hoover:

Herbert Clark Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with William Howard Taft) elected without electoral experience or high military rank.
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Herbert Hoover

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.

Herbert Hoover

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Herbert Hoover

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Herbert Hoover

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

Herbert Hoover

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

Herbert Hoover

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

Herbert Hoover

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Herbert Hoover

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoover

All men are equal before fish.

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.

Herbert Hoover

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Herbert Hoover

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Herbert Hoover

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Herbert Hoover

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Herbert Hoover

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Herbert Hoover

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

Herbert Hoover

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Herbert Hoover

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Herbert Hoover

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Herbert Hoover

Author Bio

  • NameHerbert Hoover
  • DescriptionAmerican politician, 31st president of the United States (in office from 1929 to 1933)
  • AliasesHerbert Clark Hoover
  • BornAugust 10, 1874
  • DiedOctober 20, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Engineer; Writer; Mining Engineer
  • AwardsJohn Fritz Medal