Quotes of Herbert Clark Hoover - somelinesforyou

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

- Herbert Clark Hoover

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

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it. ”

- 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 aftermath of war. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

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

- 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 aftermath of war. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

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

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ Children are our most valuable natural resource. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ Children are our most valuable natural resource. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

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

- Herbert Clark Hoover

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

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

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

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ 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 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

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

- 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 aftermath of war. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ Thus the scene of the tragedy of Liberty world over must be suffering and discontent among the people. The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; idealism without realism; slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent action against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former order; dismay and panic in the economic organization which feeds on its own despair… ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women… ”

- Herbert Clark 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 Clark Hoover

“ No public man can be just a little crooked. ”

- 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 aftermath of war. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ My country… gave me schooling, independence of action and opportunity for service…:. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay. ”

- 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

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

- Herbert Clark Hoover
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