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
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. – Herbert Hoover
Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men. – Herbert Hoover
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. – Herbert Hoover
This is the pain pacemaker. Ive got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. Its tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know? – Jerry Lewis