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" Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. "
Herbert Hoover
Jobs
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You
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" If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. "
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" I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. "
Herbert Hoover
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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. "
Herbert Hoover
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" Children are our most valuable natural resource. "
Herbert Hoover
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" Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. "
Herbert Hoover
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Council
" 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. "
Herbert Hoover
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Man
War
" 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. "
Herbert Hoover
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Power
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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. "
Herbert Hoover
Adventure
Family
Food
" New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. "
Herbert Hoover
Science
New
Create
" A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. "
Herbert Hoover
Go
Things
Dark
" It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. "
Herbert Hoover
Important
Government
Business
" At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. "
Herbert Hoover
Boy
School
Practice
" 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. "
Herbert Hoover
God
Help
Poverty
" Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family. "
Herbert Hoover
Family
Know
Living
" We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants. "
Herbert Hoover
Men
Government
Must
" True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men. "
Herbert Hoover
True
Founded
Men
" 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. "
Herbert Hoover
Stronger
Animal
Buildings
" About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. "
Herbert Hoover
Somebody
Meet
Make
" 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. "
Herbert Hoover
Men
Free
People
" The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. "
Herbert Hoover
Children
Politics
Office
" Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. "
Herbert Hoover
Treasury
Prosperity
Cannot
" 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. "
Herbert Hoover
Realization
Only
Parade
" America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. "
Herbert Hoover
Noble
Economic
America
" The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. "
Herbert Hoover
Soul
Women
Use
" Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. "
Herbert Hoover
Freedom
Cannot
Economic
" 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. "
Herbert Hoover
Mind
Age
Family
" 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. "
Herbert Hoover
Character
Intelligence
Future
" 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. "
Herbert Hoover
Baseball
Way
Time
" Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense. "
Herbert Hoover
Respect
Ability
Defense
" 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. "
Herbert Hoover
Education
Service
Health