Herbert Hoover

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

...the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.

No one ever listened themselves out of a job.

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

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

Two courses were open to us. We might have done nothing. That would have been utter ruin. Instead, we met the situation with proposals to private business and to the Congress of the most gigantic program of economic defense and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic. We put that program in action. Our measures have repelled these attacks of fear and panic. . . . We have used the credit of the Government to aid and protect our institutions, both public and private. We have provided methods and assurances that none suffer from hunger or cold amongst our people. We have instituted measures to assist our farmers and our homeowners. We have created vast agencies for employment.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.

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

We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.

A sabedoria não consiste tanto em saber o que fazer no final, mas em saber o que fazer em seguida.

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

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.

(on the birth of his granddaughter)

Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the one named War has gone - at least for a while. But Famine, Pestilence and Death are still charging over the earth. Hunger is a silent visitor who comes like a shadow. He sits besides every anxious mother three times each day. He brings not alone suffering and sorrow, but fear and terror. He carriers disorder and the paralysis of government, and even its downfall. He is more destructive than armies, not only in human life but in morals. All of the values of right living melt before his invasions, and every gain of civilisation crumbles.