Herbert Hoover Quotes about Character

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

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

Herbert Hoover

Character, Moral Fiber, Law

Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933”

While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.

Herbert Hoover

Honesty, Character, Men

Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

Herbert Hoover

Character, Years, Fishing

Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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.

Herbert Hoover

Character, Men, Foundation

Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

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.

Herbert Hoover

Character, Opportunity, Abiding Faith

Herbert Hoover, George Nash (2016). “American Individualism”, p.47, Hoover Press

I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.

Herbert Hoover

Character, Criticism, Cottages

Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.109, Stanford University Press

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Herbert Hoover

Character, Boys, Men

Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”