A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
Herbert Hoover

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover

All men are equal before fish.
Herbert Hoover

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover

Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Hoover

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Hoover


Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Herbert Hoover

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert Hoover

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
Herbert Hoover

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

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
Herbert Hoover

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Herbert Hoover

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.
Herbert Hoover

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
Herbert Hoover