1874-1964, American – 31st American President
About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [Opportunity]
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [Youth]
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [Children]
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [Freedom]
Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [Unity]
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [Poverty and The Poor]
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [Leaders and Leadership]
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 – [Country]
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [War]
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [Peace]
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [Progress]
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 – [Poverty and The Poor]
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [Wisdom]
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Clark Hoover – [Ideals and Idealism]