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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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. "

" The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants. "

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" My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted. "

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" No public man can be just a little crooked. "

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

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

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

" True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men. "

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" The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force. "

" 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. "

" The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger. "

" One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. "

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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. "

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