Quote

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

Herbert Hoover

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Herbert Hoover
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: August 10
Died: 1964
Died: October 20
31St U.S. President
Businessperson
Engineer
Geologist
Mining Engineer
Politician
Statesperson
Writer
West Branch
Iowa
Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert C. Hoover
President Hoover
H. C. Hoover
H. Hoover
Inflation
Presidential
Escape
Economics
Debt
Smashed
Spending
Wasteful
Road
Unless
Speeding

More quotes by Herbert Hoover

Image
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.
Herbert Hoover
Image
The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.
Herbert Hoover
Image
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Herbert Hoover
Image
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover
Image
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.
Herbert Hoover
Image
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term rugged individualism, I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.
Herbert Hoover
Image
I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
Herbert Hoover
Image
The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists they're too damn greedy.
Herbert Hoover
Image
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
Herbert Hoover
Image
I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.
Herbert Hoover
Image
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
Herbert Hoover
Image
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Hoover