Herbert Hoover Short Quotes

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The American system of rugged individualism.

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Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

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The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities.

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

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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

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

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Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

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Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

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

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There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

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True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

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The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.
Conversation with Mark Sullivan, Jr.

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No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

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We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

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I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

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The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

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

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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 was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.

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Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

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

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American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

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

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

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Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

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We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

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Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

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There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.

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