Herbert Hoover Quotes
39 Herbert Hoover quotes:
"What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages."
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"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."
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"America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose."
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"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next."
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"The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night."
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"The president gets credit for the sunshine and blame for the rain - and there's a lot of rain here."
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"Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men."
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"In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land."
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"In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited."
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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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"This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character."
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"There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing."
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"The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage."
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"getting daily exercise to keep physically fit is always a problem for presidents."
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"America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose"
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"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus."
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"When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned."
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"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
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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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"Children are our most valuable resorce."
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