A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
--Herbert Hoover
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
--Herbert Hoover
As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our people who are in honest difficulties.
--Herbert Hoover
Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
--Herbert Hoover
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
--Herbert Hoover
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
--Herbert Hoover
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
--Herbert Hoover
I outlived the bastards.
--Herbert Hoover
I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him.
--Herbert Hoover
In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon his cattle. The white race cannot survive without dairy products.
--Herbert 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 Hoover
No public man can be just a little crooked.
--Herbert 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 Hoover
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
--Herbert Hoover
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
--Herbert Hoover
The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.
--Herbert Hoover
The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
--Herbert Hoover
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
--Herbert Hoover
What the country needs is a good big laugh. ... If someone could get off a good joke every ten days, I think our troubles would be over.
--Herbert Hoover
When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
--Herbert Hoover
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
--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
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