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• While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.

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  Honesty, Character, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

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• My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

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  Ambition, Able, Boyhood

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• Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

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  Jobs, Credit, Let Me

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

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  Agriculture, Manipulation, Currency

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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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.

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  Suffering, Benefits, Return

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

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  Jobs, Fall, Science

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

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  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway - and with violence.

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  Peace, Future, Mean

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• I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.

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  Suffering, Degrees, Unemployment

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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

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  Party, History, Political

  1964 In Christian Science Monitor, 21 May.

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

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  Night, Errors, Trials

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• Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

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  Sports, Baseball, Team

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

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  Government, Self, Succeed

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover”

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• It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack

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  Office, House, Leader

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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

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  Government, Law, Ends

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

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  Presidential, Purpose, Spirit

  Herbert Hoover (2005). “American Individualism”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

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  History, Purpose, World

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• Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

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  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

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  Government, Growth, Progress

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

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  Humility, Men, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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• Children add to the wonder of being alive.

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  Children, Add, Alive

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

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  Prayer, Men, Lakes

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

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  Sacrifice, Driven, Knows

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

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  Baseball, Impact, Presidential

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• . And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

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  Peace, War, Sorrow

  "Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945".

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