Herbert Hoover

"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party."

"I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness."

"Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints."

"The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers."

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

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

"The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law."

"There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president."

"Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world."