Quote

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

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
Law
Evil
Disregard
Destroys
Laws
Respect
Worst

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
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
Herbert Hoover
Image
We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.
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
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover
Image
The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.
Herbert Hoover
Image
The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.
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
If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.
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
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of Emergency. It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.
Herbert Hoover
Image
I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.
Herbert Hoover
Image
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.
Herbert Hoover
Image
Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, On the other hand...
Herbert Hoover
Image
. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover
Image
National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.
Herbert Hoover