Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Herbert Hoover Quotes Click here for Herbert Hoover books Herbert Hoover: A Public Life (Signature) "Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt." "Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs." "Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one." "Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party." "When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned." "More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining not only in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement." "Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power." "Today there are almost nine automobiles for each ten families, where seven and one-half years ago only enough automobiles were running to average less than four for each ten families." "The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people." "Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury." "No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers." "The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way." "The recognition of Russia on November 16, 1933, started forces which were to have considerable influence in the attempt to collectivize the United States." "Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement." "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 unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces." "All men are equal before fish."
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