Herbert Hoover: Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

Herbert Hoover

great-depression economic depression

The more complex the problems of the Nation become, the greater is the need for more and more advanced instruction.

Herbert Hoover

problem instruction needs

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

Herbert Hoover

government ends law

When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.

Herbert Hoover

has-beens meetings outcomes

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

Herbert Hoover

restoration recovery essentials

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

Herbert Hoover

distinction depression history

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

Herbert Hoover

hydrogen-bomb soul children

Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

Herbert Hoover

eight jobs men

It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

Herbert Hoover

criminals humanity law

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Herbert Hoover

aggravation education school

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

Herbert Hoover

doctors medicine baseball

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoover

sorrow war peace

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Herbert Hoover

political party history

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

Herbert Hoover

let-me credit jobs

Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.

Herbert Hoover

demand achievement opportunity

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 Hoover

cost criticism acceptance

One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.

Herbert Hoover

be-prepared pistols prepared

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.(on the birth of his granddaughter)

Herbert Hoover

granddaughter birth thank-god

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

Herbert Hoover

tyrants emergencies horse

In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.

Herbert Hoover

views depression lying