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Herbert Clark Hoover quotes (22) Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth that must inherit the tribulation the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Death When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting it has been a lousy meeting. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Meetings If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Law 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. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Country Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Debt A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: President 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 Clark Hoover Category: Poverty Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Action New discoveries in science ... will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who would still adventure. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Science About the time we can make the ends meet somebody moves the ends. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Time The future of nations cannot be frozen ... cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth decay and change. If no provision no allowance is made for change by peaceful means it will come anyway and with violence. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Nation 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. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Dictators The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm his high store of idealism his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Boy Recently in my opinion there has been too much talk about the Common Man. It has been dinned into us that this is the Century of the Common Man. The idea seems to be that the Common Man has come into his own at last. But I have never been able to find out who this is. In fact most Americans will get mad and fight if you try calling them common.... I have never met a father and mother who did not want their children to grow up to be uncommon men and women. May it always be so. For the future of America rests not in mediocrity but in the constant renewal of leadership in every phase of our national life. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Common 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. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Economy Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: War 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 Clark Hoover Category: Thief 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 by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Individual The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Grass Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Wisdom It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Freedom About the time we think we can make ends meet somebody moves the ends. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Easy |
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