Herbert Hoover Quotes

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• Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
• In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
• 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…
• The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals…
• 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…
• 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…
• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over…
• The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.
• 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…
• 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…
• In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the…
• Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
• Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
• Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
• I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation…
• I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite…
• I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand…
• We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts.
• There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.
• Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

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