Herbert Hoover Quotes

Herbert Hoover (41)

Birth:	10th August, 1874
Death:	20th October, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Civil Engineer, Humanist, President

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• All men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Fish, Men

• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Topics in Death, Youth

  Tags in War, Die

• 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

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  Tags in Pronouncement, Producers, Legislative, Executive, Economic, Cured, Consumers, Themselves, Cannot, Healed, Must, Body, Depression, Cell

• I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

  Herbert Hoover

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  Tags in Person, Depression

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

  Herbert Hoover

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  Tags in Good, Dark

• Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

  Herbert Hoover

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  Tags in Heart, Men

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

  Herbert Hoover

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

  Herbert Hoover

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Competition

• No public man can be just a little crooked.

  Herbert Hoover

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  Tags in Man, Little

• 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

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  Tags in Hair, Man

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

  Herbert Hoover

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  Tags in Meet, Ends, Time, Somebody, Make

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

  Herbert Hoover

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  Tags in Important

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

  Herbert Hoover

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  Tags in Freedom, Spirit, Human

• When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

  Herbert Hoover

  Topics in Job, Politics

  Tags in Sick

• The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

  Herbert Hoover

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

  Herbert Hoover

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  Tags in Economic, Purpose

• Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

  Herbert Hoover

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  Tags in Prosperity, Public

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

  Herbert Hoover

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• Prosperity is just around the corner.

  Herbert Hoover

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• Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

  Herbert Hoover

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  Tags in Political, Honor, Property