Herbert Hoover Quotes - Page 6

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

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.

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.

I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.

The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.

Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and every home. A continuation of the policies of the Republican party is fundamentally necessary to the future advancement of this progress and to the further building up of this prosperity.

Hunger is the mother of anarchy.

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.

The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set-backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by the remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.