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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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" 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

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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. "

" All men are equal before fish. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. "

" A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. "

Herbert Hoover

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

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

" It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. "

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

" I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours. "

" Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. "

" Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. "

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. "

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

" The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders. "

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

" 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 spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men. "

" Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Children are our most valuable natural resource. "

" There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. "