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Quotes from Herbert Hoover


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


While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity.


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


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


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


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


Children are our most valuable natural resource.


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


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.


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.


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.


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


We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.


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


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


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.


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


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


All men are equal before fish.


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