Herbert Hoover Quotes - Page 6

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• While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.

  Herbert Hoover

  Depression, Effort, Unity

  Herbert Hoover (1930). “Address of President Hoover at the Annual Dinner of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States: Washington, D. C., Thursday, May 1, 1930, at 9:30”

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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.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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

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• 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.

  Herbert Hoover

  Carpe Diem, History, Political

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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• America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

  Herbert Hoover

  America, Presidential, Purpose

  Letter toWilliam E. Borah, 23 Feb. 1928.

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• The more complex the problems of the Nation become, the greater is the need for more and more advanced instruction.

  Herbert Hoover

  Needs, Problem, Instruction

  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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• Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have increased the standards of living and comfort. They have eliminated infinite drudgery. They have increased leisure. But that gives more time for devilment. The work of science has eliminated much disease and suffering. It has increased the length of life. That, together with increase in productivity, has resulted in vastly increased populations. Also it increased the number of people engaged in devilment.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Animal

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

  Herbert Hoover

  War, People, Presidential

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

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• The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Men, Foundation

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

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• I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live.

  Herbert Hoover

  Faith, Religious, Real

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• So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I
  have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.

  Herbert Hoover

  Years, Feelings, Mind

  "Hoover Off the Record". Book by Theodore Joslin, 1934.

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• Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

  Herbert Hoover

  United States, Economic, Foolish

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931”

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• American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

  Herbert Hoover

  Brother, Philosophy, Fundamentals

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• The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

  Herbert Hoover

  Presidential, Progress, Dinner

  Campaign speech, New York, N.Y., 22 Oct. 1928.

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• The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Fishing, Hours

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• Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Men, Eight

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• Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Men

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

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

  Herbert Hoover

  Depression, Great Depression, Economic

  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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• In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression of such dimensions. There might have been a normal cyclical recession; but, with the usual timing, even that readjustment probably would not have taken place at that particular period, nor would it have been a "Great Depression.

  Herbert Hoover

  War, Taken, Usual

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

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• It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

  Herbert Hoover

  Memorial Day, Adversity, Men

  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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• The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

  Herbert Hoover

  Bible, Godly, Presidential

  "The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover".

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• The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

  Herbert Hoover

  Practice, People, Prevention

  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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• We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.

  Herbert Hoover

  Running, Wisdom, Government

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• Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.

  Herbert Hoover

  Opportunity, Achievement, Demand

  Herbert Hoover (2005). “American Individualism”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.

  Herbert Hoover

  Horse, Political, Tactics

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

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• If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.

  Herbert Hoover

  Running, Sunshine, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950”

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