The best Quotes by Herbert Hoover

The best Quotes by Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression.

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Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
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When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.

Quotes about Herbert Hoover

Cedric: "You know, Herbert Hoover once stayed here on this floor."
Kevin: "The vacuum guy?"
Cedric: "No, the president."
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New York, New York
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Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.
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I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap
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In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?
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We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.
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You can be too old for a lot of things, but you're never too old to be afraid.
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How can you give Kris Kringle a parking ticket on Christmas Eve? What's next, rabies shots for the Easter Bunny?
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Kevin: "Two? Make it three. I'm not driving."
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People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
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The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it.
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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I only make movies to finance my fishing.
This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!
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People learn to love their chains.
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One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
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A two-state solution is the only way to guarantee the long-term security of both the Israeli and the Palestinian people.
To make sure Israelis and Palestinians alike live in equal measure of freedom and dignity, we will not give up on working towards that goal.
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For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
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When you fall, the real test is whether you can ignore the naysayers, pick yourself up and come back stronger.
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We can't do everything, but we have to do, what we can do.
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Now there's no question China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. Good luck! That's sort of like trying to nail jello to the wall.
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We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
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Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.
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Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

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