Herbert Hoover Quotes - Page 3

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

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

Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is 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.

National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.

Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.