Quote

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

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
Moral
Church
Next
Sportsmanship
Morals
Teacher
Greatest

More quotes by Herbert Hoover

Image
Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.
Herbert Hoover
Image
The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Prosperity is just around the corner.
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
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover
Image
The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin
Herbert Hoover
Image
It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
Herbert Hoover
Image
A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.
Herbert Hoover
Image
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.
Herbert Hoover
Image
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert Hoover
Image
True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
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
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
Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.
Herbert Hoover
Image
We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.
Herbert Hoover
Image
I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set-backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by the remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible on the political side, the Constitution.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.
Herbert Hoover