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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. "
Herbert Hoover
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" The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread. "
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" Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world. "
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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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" The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people. "
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" The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. "
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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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" This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character. "
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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 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 spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men. "
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" It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. "
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" Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. "
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" Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. "
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" Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. "
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" True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men. "
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" A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity. "
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" If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. "
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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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" Children are our most valuable natural resource. "
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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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" Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints. "
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" Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. "
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" Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. "
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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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" 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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" Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. "
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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. "
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