Quotes from Herbert Hoover

There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual, or we shall have a planned society that means dictation no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no half-way ground. They cannot be mixed.

Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.