Herbert Hoover: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.”

Herbert Hoover

On Prohibition; sometimes misquoted as referring to Prohibition as "a noble experiment"; reported as such in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 47-48.
The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

Motivation , Country

“Wages have increased, the cost of living has decreased. The job of every man and woman has been made more secure. We have in this short period decreased the fear of poverty, the fear of unemployment, the fear of old age; and these fears that are the greatest calamities of human kind.”

Herbert Hoover

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928), Campaign speech in New York (22 October 1928)

Age , Fear

“As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our people who are in honest difficulties.”

Herbert Hoover

The Hoover Policies (1937)

Hunger , People

“The high tenet of this philosophy (Liberalism) is that Liberty is an endowment from the Creator of every individual man and woman upon which no power, whether economic or political, can encroach, and that not even the government may deny. And herein it challenges all other philosophies of society and government; for all others, both before and since, insist that the individual has no such unalienable rights, that he is but the servant of the state. Liberalism holds that man is master of the state, not the servant; that the sole purpose of government is to nurture and assure these liberties. All others insist that Liberty is not a God-given right; that the state is the master of the man.”

Herbert Hoover

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The Challenge to Liberty (1934)

God

“More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining not only in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.”

Herbert Hoover

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

Women , Men , Family , Home

“The swimming hole is still in use. It has the same mudbank. It is still impossible to dress without carrying mud home in one’s inner garments. As an engineer I could devise improvements for that swimming hole. But I doubt if the decrease in mother’s grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would compensate the inherent joys of getting muddy.”

Herbert Hoover

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

Home , Boy , Joy

“This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.”

Herbert Hoover

Hoover Off the Record (1934)

“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.”

Herbert Hoover

On losing the presidency to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hoover Off the Record (1934)

Peace , Feeling , Victory , Personality

“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.”

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964 (1971)

Lie , Fear

“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

Quoted in the New York Times (17 October 1964)

Men , Parting

“The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.”

Herbert Hoover

The Hoover Policies (1937)

Way , Communication , Success , Help

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

Herbert Hoover

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

“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.”

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964 (1971)

Life , People , Religion , Spring

“While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States—that is, prosperity.”

Herbert Hoover

Address at annual dinner of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States (1 May 1930). Hoover is sometimes misreported as having said on this occasion or another, "Prosperity is just around the corner"; reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 48.

People , Intelligence , Effort , Future

“The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.”

Herbert Hoover

Hoover Off the Record (1934)

People

“No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.”

Herbert Hoover

The Hoover Policies (1937)

Country

“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”

Herbert Hoover

Address to the Nebraska Republican Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska (16 January 1936)