To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
Herbert HooverThe imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.
Herbert HooverThe durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
Herbert HooverEvery generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
Herbert HooverThe association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.
Herbert HooverHonest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
Herbert HooverI can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.
Herbert Hoover