Herbert Hoover Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Herbert Hoover:

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

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Herbert Hoover

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Herbert Hoover

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

Herbert Hoover

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

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

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoover

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

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

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Herbert Hoover

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Herbert Hoover

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Herbert Hoover

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

Herbert Hoover

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Herbert Hoover

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

Herbert Hoover

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Herbert Hoover

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Herbert Hoover

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Herbert 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 Hoover

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Herbert Hoover

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Herbert Hoover

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Herbert Hoover

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Herbert Hoover

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Herbert Hoover

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

Herbert Hoover

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Herbert Hoover

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Herbert Hoover

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

Herbert Hoover

The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.

Herbert Hoover

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoover

This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.

Herbert Hoover

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Herbert Hoover

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Herbert Hoover

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Herbert Hoover

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Herbert Hoover

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

Herbert Hoover

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

Herbert Hoover