Herbert Hoover

"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

"“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”"

- Herbert Hoover

"Our most valuable resource is preschoolers."

- Herbert Hoover

"There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president."

- Herbert Hoover

"Be patient and calm—for no one can catch fish in anger."

- Herbert Hoover

"Be patient and calm - for no one can catch fish in anger."

- Herbert Hoover

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

- Herbert Hoover

"Here men endured that a nation might live."

- Herbert Hoover

"To go fishing is a chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of the sun on blue water."

- Herbert Hoover

"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."

- Herbert Hoover

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

- Herbert Hoover

"Children are the world’s most valuable resource."

- Herbert Hoover

"Children are our most valuable resource."

- Herbert Hoover

"The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers."

- Herbert Hoover

"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."

- Herbert Hoover

"I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him."

- Herbert Hoover

"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and of human dignity."

- Herbert Hoover

"Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men – for all men are equal before fish."

- Herbert Hoover