Herbert Hoover Quotes
Best 17 Quotes by Herbert Hoover
“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
“All men are equal before fish.”
“America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.”
“Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.”
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”
“Children are our greatest natural resource.”
“Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.”
“Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.”
“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.”
“I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.”
“I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.”
“Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.”
“My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.”
“No one ever listened themselves out of a job.”
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
“The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.”
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“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
There are only two main theories of government in our world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, and the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in the republic, the other is represented by despotism.
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man. Of course we endeavor to restrain the vicious, and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reform which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of our religious convictions, or they will not come at all.
Peace, justice, humanity, charity—these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of divine grace.”
“We have gold because we cannot trust governments.”
