Herbert Hoover Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• 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

  Girl, Country, Boys

  Letter to Senator George H. Moses on June 14, 1928. "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover", volume 2, p. 195, 1952.

• When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

  Herbert Hoover

  Government, People, Political

  Herbert Hoover (1955). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955”

• Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

  Herbert Hoover

  Party, History, Political

  1964 In Christian Science Monitor, 21 May.

• No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

  Herbert Hoover

  Education, School, Aggravation

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

• You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Country, Mean

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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