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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 an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. 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. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.
-Herbert Hoover
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Children
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Children are our most valuable natural resource.
-Herbert Hoover
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Credit
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
-Herbert Hoover, Address at Des Moines, Iowa, October 4, 1932
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Freedom
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
-Herbert Hoover
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Government
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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
-Herbert Hoover
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Idealism
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
-Herbert Hoover
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Leadership
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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
-Herbert Hoover
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Liberty
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Thus the scene of the tragedy of Liberty world over must be suffering and discontent among the people. The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; idealism without realism; slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent action against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former order; dismay and panic in the economic organization which feeds on its own despair. Emotions rise above reason. The man on horseback, ascending triumphantly to office on the steps of constitutional process, demands and threatens the parliament into the delegation of its sacred power. Then follows consolidation of authority through powerful propaganda in the pay of the state to transform the mentality of the people. Resentment of criticism, denunciation of all opposition, moral terrorization, all follow in sequence. The last scene is the suppression of freedom. Liberty dies of the water from her own well- free speech- poisoned by untruth. In the Epilogue the dreams of those who saw Utopia are shattered and the people find they are marching backward toward the Middle Ages- as regimented men.
-Herbert Hoover, The Challenge to Liberty, (Charles Scribners' Sons, N.Y.) pg. 16-17, 1934
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Opportunity
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About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
-Herbert Hoover
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Patriotism
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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.
-Herbert Hoover
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Peace
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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
-Herbert Hoover
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Poverty
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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
-Herbert Hoover
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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.
-Herbert Hoover
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Progress
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The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
-Herbert Hoover
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Success & Failure
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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
-Herbert Hoover
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Unity
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Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
-Herbert Hoover
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War
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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
-Herbert Hoover
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Wisdom
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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
-Herbert Hoover
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Youth
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-Herbert Hoover
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