Quotes from Herbert Hoover

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

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

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.