Herbert Hoover Quotations

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

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

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.

I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.