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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. "
Herbert Hoover
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" New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. "
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" The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys' camp fire. "
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" Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. "
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" There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. "
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" Children are our most valuable natural resource. "
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" The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law. "
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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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" The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. "
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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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" 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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" True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. "
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Fishing
" Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. "
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" Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense. "
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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 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. "
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" Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. "
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" Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity. "
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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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" Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. "
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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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