Quotes from Herbert Hoover
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
- Herbert Hoover
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.
- Herbert Hoover
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
- Herbert Hoover
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
- Herbert Hoover
The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.
- Herbert Hoover
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
- Herbert Hoover
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?
- Herbert Hoover
Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.
- 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
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
- Herbert Hoover
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
- Herbert Hoover
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
- Herbert Hoover