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All Quotes by author - Herbert Hoover

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

" A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. "

" All men are equal before fish. "

" America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. "

" 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. "

" At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. "

" 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. "

" A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity. "

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

" Children are our most valuable natural resource. "

" Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. "

" Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. "

" 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 does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty. "

" Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. "

" 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. "

" Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. "

" 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. "

" I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care. "

" If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. "

" I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. "

" In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. "

" 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. "

" It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. "

" It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. "

" Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. "

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