Herbert Clark Hoover

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

— Herbert Clark Hoover

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

— Herbert Clark Hoover

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

— Herbert Clark Hoover

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

— Herbert Clark Hoover

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

— Herbert Clark Hoover

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

— Herbert Clark Hoover

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

— Herbert Clark Hoover

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

— Herbert Clark Hoover

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.

— Herbert Clark Hoover

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

— Herbert Clark Hoover

Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.

— Herbert Clark Hoover

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

— Herbert Clark Hoover

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

— Herbert Clark Hoover

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

— Herbert Clark Hoover

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

— Herbert Clark Hoover

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

— Herbert Clark Hoover

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

— Herbert Clark Hoover

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

— Herbert Clark Hoover