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Herbert Hoover


American
August 10, 1874
President
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.


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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.


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Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.


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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.


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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.


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Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.


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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.


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It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
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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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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.


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The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.


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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.
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Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.
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