Quotes from Herbert Hoover

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

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

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

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.

Children are our greatest natural resource.

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

There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure -- that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate. (on the birth of his granddaughter)

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.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.