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Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade. -- Herbert Hoover
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We have gold because we cannot trust governments -- Herbert Hoover
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The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom. -- Herbert Hoover
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Engineering is a great profession. -- Herbert Hoover
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The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women. -- Herbert Hoover
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Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. -- Herbert Hoover
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The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt ... No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience. -- Herbert Hoover
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Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god. -- Herbert Hoover
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What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism ... And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us. -- Herbert Hoover
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Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family. -- Herbert Hoover
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I outlived the bastards. -- Herbert Hoover
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In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces. -- Herbert Hoover
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Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time! -- Herbert Hoover
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Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you. -- Herbert Hoover
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Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men. -- Herbert Hoover
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The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors. -- Herbert Hoover
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It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished. -- Herbert Hoover
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I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME. -- Herbert Hoover
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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. -- Herbert Hoover
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The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue. -- Herbert Hoover
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A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man. -- Herbert Hoover
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When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. -- Herbert Hoover
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The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men. -- Herbert Hoover
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My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted. -- Herbert Hoover
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. -- Herbert Hoover
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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
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It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack -- Herbert Hoover
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We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation. -- Herbert Hoover
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True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism. -- Herbert Hoover
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With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. -- Herbert Hoover
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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. -- Herbert Hoover
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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. -- Herbert Hoover
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We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government. -- Herbert Hoover
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Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family. -- Herbert Hoover
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Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands. -- Herbert Hoover
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The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth. -- Herbert Hoover
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Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production. -- Herbert Hoover
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Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish. -- Herbert Hoover
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The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. -- Herbert Hoover
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Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time
making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts. -- Herbert Hoover
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The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it. -- Herbert Hoover
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It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow ... that are the aftermath of war. -- Herbert Hoover
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American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, Am I my brother's keeper? -- Herbert Hoover
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Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost. -- Herbert Hoover
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Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time. -- Herbert Hoover
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The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way. -- Herbert Hoover
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The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you. -- Herbert Hoover
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Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover
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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. -- Herbert Hoover
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American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism. -- Herbert Hoover
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One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot. -- Herbert Hoover
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The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people. -- Herbert Hoover
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It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell. -- Herbert Hoover
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It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country. -- Herbert Hoover
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We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts. -- Herbert Hoover
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I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him. -- Herbert Hoover
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Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company. -- Herbert Hoover
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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
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. -- Herbert Hoover
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Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. -- Herbert Hoover
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The 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 Hoover
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The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread. -- Herbert Hoover
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I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character. -- Herbert Hoover
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Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man. -- Herbert Hoover
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I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion. -- Herbert Hoover
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I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else. -- Herbert Hoover
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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. -- Herbert Hoover
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America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios. -- Herbert Hoover
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The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system. -- Herbert Hoover
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When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation. -- Herbert Hoover
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There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure
that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have. -- Herbert Hoover
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No public man can be just a little crooked. -- Herbert Hoover
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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
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Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty. -- Herbert Hoover
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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. -- Herbert Hoover
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Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession. -- Herbert Hoover
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There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer. -- Herbert Hoover
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. -- Herbert Hoover
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Children are our most valuable natural resource. -- Herbert Hoover
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A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity. -- Herbert Hoover
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We have not yet reached the goal but ... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. -- Herbert Hoover
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I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts. -- Herbert Hoover
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Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism. -- Herbert Hoover
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I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit. -- Herbert Hoover
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I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself. -- Herbert Hoover
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Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven. -- Herbert Hoover
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When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it. -- Herbert Hoover
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So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I
have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation. -- Herbert Hoover
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Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man. -- Herbert Hoover
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National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals. -- Herbert Hoover
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The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers. -- Herbert Hoover
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There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive. -- Herbert Hoover
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The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence. -- Herbert Hoover
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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. -- Herbert Hoover
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Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die. -- Herbert Hoover
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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
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When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting. -- Herbert Hoover
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New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. -- Herbert Hoover
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One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament. -- Herbert Hoover
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Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination. -- Herbert Hoover
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At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way. -- Herbert Hoover
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The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger. -- Herbert Hoover
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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
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We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth
RESPONSIBILITY. -- Herbert Hoover
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An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society. -- Herbert Hoover
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. -- Herbert Hoover
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At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. -- Herbert Hoover
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The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists. -- Herbert Hoover
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I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence. -- Herbert Hoover
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Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy. -- Herbert Hoover
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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
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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. -- Herbert Hoover
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Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful. -- Herbert Hoover
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All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them. -- Herbert Hoover
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Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior. -- Herbert Hoover
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[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers. -- Herbert Hoover
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A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. -- Herbert Hoover
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Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints. -- Herbert Hoover
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Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. -- Herbert Hoover
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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. -- Herbert Hoover
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A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents. -- Herbert Hoover
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The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. -- Herbert Hoover
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The more complex the problems of the Nation become, the greater is the need for more and more advanced instruction. -- Herbert Hoover
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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -- Herbert Hoover
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We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships. -- Herbert Hoover
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The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices. -- Herbert Hoover
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Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness. -- Herbert Hoover
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True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men. -- Herbert Hoover
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Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them. -- Herbert Hoover
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Prosperity is just around the corner. -- Herbert Hoover
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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. -- Herbert Hoover
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Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger. -- Herbert Hoover
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Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased. -- Herbert Hoover
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Children are our most valuable resource. -- Herbert Hoover
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Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture. -- Herbert Hoover
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. -- Herbert Hoover
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I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good. -- Herbert Hoover
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The wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises. -- Herbert Hoover
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This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character. -- Herbert Hoover
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There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. -- Herbert Hoover
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The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy. -- Herbert Hoover
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The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage. -- Herbert Hoover
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The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment ... has no place in the gospel of American progress. -- Herbert Hoover
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Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next. -- Herbert Hoover
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The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries. -- Herbert Hoover
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. -- Herbert Hoover
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Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness. -- Herbert Hoover
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The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin -- Herbert Hoover
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Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.
(on the birth of his granddaughter) -- Herbert Hoover
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Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense. -- Herbert Hoover
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The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children. -- Herbert Hoover
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We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity. -- Herbert Hoover
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Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement -- Herbert Hoover
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The recognition of Russia on November 16, 1933, started forces which were to have considerable influence in the attempt to collectivize the United States. -- Herbert Hoover
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Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance. -- Herbert Hoover
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. -- Herbert Hoover
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I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours. -- Herbert Hoover
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Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement. -- Herbert Hoover
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The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. -- Herbert Hoover
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It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. -- Herbert Hoover
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The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. -- Herbert Hoover
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I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine. -- Herbert Hoover
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You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side. -- Herbert Hoover
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The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. -- Herbert Hoover
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Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. -- Herbert Hoover
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There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals etc ... he who seeks for guidance ... may look inside its covers & find illumination -- Herbert Hoover
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The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies. -- Herbert Hoover
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The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans. -- Herbert Hoover
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The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis. -- Herbert Hoover
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Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty. -- Herbert Hoover
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We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself. -- Herbert Hoover
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About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -- Herbert Hoover
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Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life. -- Herbert Hoover
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Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs. -- Herbert Hoover
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law. -- Herbert Hoover
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We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before. -- Herbert Hoover
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Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future. -- Herbert Hoover
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We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants. -- Herbert Hoover
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Children are our greatest natural resource. -- Herbert Hoover
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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. -- Herbert Hoover
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Children add to the wonder of being alive. -- Herbert Hoover
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Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom. -- Herbert Hoover
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I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living. -- Herbert Hoover
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The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys' camp fire. -- Herbert Hoover
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Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an idealist; he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader. -- Herbert Hoover
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I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented. -- Herbert Hoover
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Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure. -- Herbert Hoover
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Hunger is the mother of anarchy. -- Herbert Hoover
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The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women. -- Herbert Hoover
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Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it. -- Herbert Hoover
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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
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In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon his cattle. The white race cannot survive without dairy products. -- Herbert Hoover
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Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends. -- Herbert Hoover
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The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water. -- Herbert Hoover
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Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals. -- Herbert Hoover
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Baseball is the greatest of all team sports. -- Herbert Hoover
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Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over. -- Herbert Hoover
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Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. -- Herbert Hoover
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All men are equal before fish. -- Herbert Hoover
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The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity. -- Herbert Hoover
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Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court. -- Herbert Hoover
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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
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Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil. -- Herbert Hoover
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Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand ... " -- Herbert Hoover
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My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere, -- Herbert Hoover
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It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live. -- Herbert Hoover
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Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it. -- Herbert Hoover
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One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard. -- Herbert Hoover
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Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism. -- Herbert Hoover
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A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels. -- Herbert Hoover
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To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope. -- Herbert Hoover
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No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men. -- Herbert Hoover
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Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate. -- Herbert Hoover
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We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats -- Herbert Hoover
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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
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Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed! -- Herbert Hoover
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. -- Herbert Hoover
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The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training. -- Herbert Hoover
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[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday. -- Herbert Hoover
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Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. -- Herbert Hoover
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Eat plenty, wisely, without waste. -- Herbert Hoover
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No one ever listened themselves out of a job. -- Herbert Hoover
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No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original. -- Herbert Hoover
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The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force. -- Herbert Hoover
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One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. -- Herbert Hoover
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Love what is ahead by loving what has come before. -- Herbert Hoover