Quotes by Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

American engineer, businessman and politician

Lived from: 1874 - 1964

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 10 august 1874 Died: 20 october 1964

  • Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

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  • About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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  • Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
    On Growing Up: Letters to American Boys & Girls (1962)
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  • Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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  • Children are our most valuable natural resource.
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  • Children are our most valuable natural resource.
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  • Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
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  • Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
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  • Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
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  • Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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  • Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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  • Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
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  • Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
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  • In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.
    Speech Stanford University, 11 august 1928
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  • In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
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  • In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
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  • 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.
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  • Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
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  • Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
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  • Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
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  • Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
    Hoover Off the Record (1934) door Theodore G. Joslin
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What are the most famous quotes from Herbert Hoover?

The two most famous quotes from Herbert Hoover are:

  • "About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
  • "Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one."

When did Herbert Hoover live?

Herbert Hoover was born in 1874 and died in the year 1964.