Equal Quotes by Herbert Hoover

8 Equal quotes by Herbert Hoover

Hoover’s brief reflections on fairness are gathered in eight compact lines, a modest window into his presidential perspective.

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Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph…

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

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To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the…

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Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles…

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Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government…

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Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of…

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All men are equal before fish.

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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…

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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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The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,…

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“No one ever listened themselves out of a job.”

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Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

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It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and…

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One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

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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…

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You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such…

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“Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in…

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When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when…

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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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If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on…

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The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of…

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