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" This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character. "

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" 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 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 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. "

" Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. "

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

" 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. "

" Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense. "

" Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. "

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

" Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. "

" America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. "

" Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. "

" The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law. "

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

" The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. "

" 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. "

" If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. "

" 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. "

" Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate. "

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" Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom. "

" 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. "

" Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. "

" There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation. "

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