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" The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity. "

Herbert Hoover

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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" Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. "

" Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. "

" 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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" The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. "

" 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. "

" No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. "

Herbert Hoover

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Him

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" Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. "

" 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. "