Herbert Hoover Quotes
1932 Presidential Election Landslide
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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America
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. In no other land could a boy from a country village,
without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
Herbert Hoover
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American Leadership Source
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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Being President
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 are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy,
especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Herbert Hoover
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Children
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Hoover
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Common Man
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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Competition
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the
incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover
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Depression
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive
pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the
cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression
named for him.
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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Ends
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover
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Fishing
All men are equal before fish.
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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Freedom
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the
human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Hoover
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"Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only
if he is 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
Source: Addresses on the American Road
Freedom Of Speech
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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Honor
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
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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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole
people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover
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Peace
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the
hearts of men.
Herbert Hoover
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Poverty
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than
is any other land.
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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Progress
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
Herbert Hoover
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Public Man
No public man can be just a little crooked.
Herbert Hoover
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Things Going Around
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
Herbert Hoover
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Trojan Horse
"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'.
It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist
sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men
striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became the justification
of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the
greatest achievement that demagoguery attains."
Herbert Hoover
(1874-1964), 31st US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Herbert.Hoover.Quote.4013
War
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover
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Words
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover
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Young
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover
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