Best Quotes by Herbert Hoover (Top 10)
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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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.
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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.
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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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.
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Children are our most valuable natural resource.
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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
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Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
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More Herbert Hoover Quotes
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It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
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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.
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
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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.
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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
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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.
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