Herbert Hoover Quotes

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Herbert Hoover

Profession : President

Birth : August 10, 1874

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

Herbert Hoover

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

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.

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All men are equal before fish.

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One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

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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.

Herbert Hoover

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

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

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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

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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.

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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

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

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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.

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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

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

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

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

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

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

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