Quotes by Herbert Hoover

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

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