A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
Herbert Hoover
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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
All men are equal before fish.
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
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.
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.
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
No public man can be just a little crooked.
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.
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
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 be banished from this nation.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.
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