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"41 Herbert Hoover Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 10 August 1874. Died: 20 October 1964 | President | Engineer | Businessman | Politician |

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Words Actions Assassins Idealism
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Credit Lifeblood Business
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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Wisdom Consists Knowing Do next
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Older men Declare war Fight Die
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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Children Most valuable Natural resource
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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.

Have not Reached Goal God
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Blessed Young Shall inherit National debt
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Only person Distinction Depression
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Honor Exclusive property Political party
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The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

Pause Errors Trial Hopes
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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Time Make Ends meet Moves
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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.

No greater Affectionate honor Public school
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All men are equal before fish.

All men Equal Fish
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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.

Paradox Dictator Climbed Power
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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Lack Honor Government Morals
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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.

Fishing Great occasion Return Fine simplicity
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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.

Time Political opponents Honored me Fabulous
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Freedom Open window Human spirit
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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Peace Council table Treaties Men
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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

I enjoyed most Visit Children Public office
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It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
Youth Inherit Tribulation Sorrow
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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Law Upheld Government officials An end
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New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

New discoveries Science Create Adventure
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It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Important Business Government
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Prosperity Restored Raid Public treasury
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Worst evil Disregard Law Respect
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Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

Peace Contributed Respect ability
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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.

Peace Promoted Limitation Creation
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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.

Meet Unpaid Bill Nation
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Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

Economic freedom Sacrificed Political
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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.

Glory Nation Character Boyhood
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Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

Self government Succeed Instructed electorate
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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.

Profound truth Progress Peace All humanity
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A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

People Ballot Possess Unlimited power
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The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Spirit Liberalism Free men Regimentation
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True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

Liberal government Emancipation Men
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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.

Democracy Static Living force New idea
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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.

Free government Most difficult Everlastingly true
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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.

Freedom Die Front attack Men
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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.

Freedom conceives Mind Spirit Own life
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We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Have government Builds stamina Communities
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Herbert Hoover Quotes & Sayings