Herbert Hoover Quotes - Page 9

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.

The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.

Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare of our people. The participation of women in elections has produced a keener realization of the importance of these questions and has contributed to higher national ideals. Moreover, it is through them that our national ideals are ingrained in our children.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

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.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.