Herbert Hoover Quotes

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side. - Herbert Hoover

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

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. - Herbert Hoover

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. - Herbert Hoover

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

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. - Herbert Hoover

When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism. - Herbert Hoover

What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages. - Herbert Hoover

Twenty million people are starving [in Russia]. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed! - Herbert Hoover

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