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I Returned To The White House After Midnight More Depressed Than Ever Before. I Had Long Since Arranged To Attend The World Series In Philadelphia The Next Day. Although I Like Baseball, I Kept This Engagement Only Because I Felt That My Presence At A Sporting Event Might Be A Gesture Of Reassurance To A Country Suffering From A Severe Attack Of 'jitters.'

-Herbert Hoover

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I Returned To The White House After Midnight More Depressed Than Ever Before. I Had Long Since Arranged To Attend The World Series In Philadelphia The Next Day. Although I Like Baseball, I Kept This Engagement Only Because I Felt That My Presence At A Sporting Event Might Be A Gesture Of Reassurance To A Country Suffering From A Severe Attack Of 'jitters.'

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The Joys Of Fishing Are Not Confined To The Hours Near The Water.

Our Individualism Is Rooted In Our Very Nature. It Is Based On Conviction Born Of Experience. Equal Opportunity, The Demand For A Fair Chance, Became The Formula Of American Individualism Because It Is The Method Of American Achievement.

The Spiritual Uplift, The Goodwill, Cheerfulness And Optimism That Accompanies Every Expedition To The Outdoors Is The Peculiar Spirit That Our People Need In Times Of Suspicion And Doubt...no Other Organized Joy Has Values Comparable To The Outdoor Experience.

Above All, We Know That Although Americans Can Be Led To Make Great Sacrifices, They Do Not Like To Be Driven.

The Recognition Of Russia On November 16, 1933, Started Forces Which Were To Have Considerable Influence In The Attempt To Collectivize The United States.

All Progress And Growth Is A Matter Of Change, But Change Must Be Growth Within Our Social And Government Concepts If It Should Not Destroy Them.

The Fundamental Business Of The Country, That Is Production And Distribution Of Commodities, Is On A Sound And Prosperous Basis.

I Come Of Quaker Stock. My Ancestors Were Persecuted For Their Beliefs. Here They Sought And Found Religious Freedom. By Blood And Conviction I Stand For Religious Tolerance Both In Act And In Spirit.

It Is Obvious That While Science Is Struggling To Bring Heaven To Earth Some Men Are Using Its Materials In The Construction Of Hell.

The Sole Function Of Government Is To Bring About A Condition Of Affairs Favorable To The Beneficial Development Of Private Enterprise.

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.

No Greater Nor More Affectionate Honor Can Be Conferred On An American Than To Have A Public School Named After Him.

Even If Security From The Cradle To The Grave Could Eliminate [all] The Risks Of Life, It Would [still] Be A Dead Hand On The Creative Spirit Of The American People.

The Structure Of Human Betterment Cannot Be Built Upon Foundations Of Materialism Or Business, But Upon The Bedrock Of Individual Character In Free Men And Women.

Fishing Is More Than Fish; It Is The Vitalizing Lure To Outdoor Life.

In My Public Statements I Have Earnestly Urged That There Rested Upon Government Many Responsibilities Which Affect The Moral And Spiritual Welfare Of Our People. The Participation Of Women In Elections Has Produced A Keener Realization Of The Importance Of These Questions And Has Contributed To Higher National Ideals. Moreover, It Is Through Them That Our National Ideals Are Ingrained In Our Children.

So Far As The Personal Side Is Concerned, The Victory Was To Him Who Lost And The Defeat To Him Who Won. I Can Say That Never In The Last Fifteen Years Have I Had The Peace Of Mind That I Have Since The Election. I Have Almost A Feeling Of Elation.

Truly Every Generation Discovers The World All New Again And Knows It Can Improve It.

Children Are Our Most Valuable Natural Resource.

The Glory Of The Nation Rests In The Character Of Her Men. And Character Comes From Boyhood. Thus Every Boy Is A Challenge To His Elders.

In America Today, We Are Nearer A Final Triumph Over Poverty Than Is Any Other Land.

Thank God She Doesn't Have To Be Confirmed By The Senate.(on The Birth Of His Granddaughter)

American Life Is Builded ... Upon That Fundamental Philosophy Announced By The Savior Nineteen Centuries Ago ... [it] Can Not Survive With The Defense Of Cain, "am I My Brother's Keeper?

Any Practice Of Business Which Would Dominate The Country By Its Own Selfish Interest Is A Destruction Of Equality Of Opportunity. Government In Business, Except In Emergency, Is Also A Destruction Of Equal Opportunity And The Incarnation Of Tyranny Through Bureaucracy.

The People Have A Vital Interest In The Conservation Of Their Natural Resources; In The Prevention Of Wasteful Practices.

I Protest That We Fans Are Being Emotionally Starved And Frustrated By Long Periods Of Perfect Performance Of These Batteries. More Over, When There Are Nothing But Strikes And Balls Going On, You Relapse Into Your Worries Over The Bank Of England, Or Something Else.

The Job Is Nothing But A Twenty-ring Circus-with A Whole Lot Of Bad Actors.

Wisdom Consists Not So Much In Knowing What To Do In The Ultimate As In Knowing What To Do Next.

Honest Difference Of Views And Honest Debate Are Not Disunity. They Are The Vital Process Of Policy Among Free Men.

Engineering Is A Great Profession. There Is The Satisfaction Of Watching A Figment Of The Imagination Emerge Through The Aid Of Science To A Plan On Paper. Then It Moves To Realization In Stone Or Metal Or Energy. Then It Brings Homes To Men Or Women. Then It Elevates The Standard Of Living And Adds To The Comforts Of Life. This Is The Engineer's High Privilege.

The Rigid Volunteer Rules Of Right And Wrong In Sports Are Second Only To Religious Faith In Moral Training.

One Who Brandishes A Pistol Must Be Prepared To Shoot.

I Believe Not Only That Religious Faith Will Be Victorious, But That It Is Vital To Humankind That It Shall Be. We May Differ In Form And Particulars In Our Religious Faith. Those Are Matters That Are Sacred To Each Of Our Inner Sanctuaries. It Is Our Privilege To Decline To Argue Them. Their Real Demonstration Is The Lives That We Live.

The Slogan Of Progress Is Changing From The Full Dinner Pail To The Full Garage.

Let Me Remind You That Credit Is The Lifeblood Of Business, The Lifeblood Of Prices And Jobs.

In The Large Sense The Primary Cause Of The Great Depression Was The War Of 1914-1918. Without The War There Would Have Been No Depression Of Such Dimensions. There Might Have Been A Normal Cyclical Recession; But, With The Usual Timing, Even That Readjustment Probably Would Not Have Taken Place At That Particular Period, Nor Would It Have Been A "great Depression.

The Great Liability Of The Engineer Compared To Men Of Other Professions Is That His Works Are Out In The Open Where All Can See Them. His Acts, Step By Step, Are In Hard Substance. He Cannot Bury His Mistakes In The Grave Like The Doctors. He Cannot Argue Them Into Thin Air Or Blame The Judge Like The Lawyers. He Cannot, Like The Architects, Cover His Failures With Trees And Vines. He Cannot, Like The Politicians, Screen His Shortcomings By Blaming His Opponents And Hope The People Will Forget. The Engineer Simply Cannot Deny He Did It. If His Works Do Not Work, He Is Damned.

No Great Question Will Ever Be Settled In Dollars And Cents. Great Questions Must Be Settled On Moral Grounds And The Tests Of What Makes Free Men.

Along With Currency Manipulation, The New Deal Introduced To Americans The Spectacle Of Fascist Dictation To Business, Labor, And Agriculture.

It [freedom] Is A Thing Of The Spirit. Men Must Be Free To Worship, To Think, To Hold Opinions, To Speak Without Fear. They Must Be Free To Challenge Wrong And Oppression With The Surety Of Justice.

I Have On Numerous Occasions, As You Know, Expressed My Sympathy In The Establishment Of A National Home For The Jews In Palestine And, Despite The Set-backs Caused By The Disorders There During The Last Few Years, I Have Been Heartened By The Progress Which Has Been Made And By The Remarkable Accomplishments Of The Jewish Settlers In That Country.

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All Men Are Equal Before Fish.

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.

Our Social And Economic System Cannot March Toward Better Days Unless It Is Inspired By Things Of The Spirit. It Is Here That The Higher Purposes Of Individualism Must Find Their Sustenance.

It Is Always Possible That Occasional Individuals May Have Overstepped The Law And Humanity In Treatment Of Criminals And Those Charged With Crime, And If So, They Should Be Severely Punished.

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Freedom Requires That Government Keep The Channels Of Competition And Opportunity Open, Prevent Monopolies, Economic Abuse And Domination.

Governments Know That The Life Of The World Cannot Be Saved If The Soul Of The World Is Allowed To Be Lost.

Through Baseball We Channel Boys Desire For Exercise And Let Off Their Explosive Violence Without Letting Them Get Into The Police Court.

Liberalism Is A Force Truly Of The Spirit Proceeding From The Deep Realization That Economic Freedom Cannot Be Sacrificed If Political Freedom Is To Be Preserved.

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Many Women Are Now Holding Posts Of Grave Responsibility In City And Country And State And Nation, And Their Number Must Be Greatly Increased.

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Older Men Declare War. But It Is The Youth That Must Fight And Die.

To Go Fishing Is The Chance To Wash One's Soul With Pure Air, With The Rush Of The Brook, Or With The Shimmer Of Sun On Blue Water. It Brings Meekness And Inspiration From The Decency Of Nature, Charity Toward Tackle-makers, Patience Toward Fish, A Mockery Of Profits And Egos, A Quieting Of Hate, A Rejoicing That You Do Not Have To Decide A Darned Thing Until Next Week. And It Is Discipline In The Equality Of Men - For All Men Are Equal Before Fish.

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True American Liberalism Utterly Denies The Whole Creed Of Socialism.

The Whole Inspiration Of Our Civilization Springs From The Teachings Of Christ And The Lessons Of The Prophets. To Read The Bible For These Fundamentals Is A Necessity Of American Life.

There Is No More Cruel Illusion Than That War Makes A People Richer.

A Good Many Things Go Around In The Dark Besides Santa Claus.

A Splendid Storehouse Of Integrity And Freedom Has Been Bequeathed To Us By Our Forefathers. In This Day Of Confusion, Of Peril To Liberty, Our High Duty Is To See That This Storehouse Is Not Robbed Of Its Contents.

Sportsmanship, Next To The Church, Is The Greatest Teacher Of Morals.

Children Are The Most Wholesome Part Of The Race, The Sweetest, For They Are The Freshest From The Hand Of God.

I Shall Tell My Doctors Baseball Has More Curative Powers Than All Their Medicine.

We Are Now Speeding Down The Road Of Wasteful Spending And Debt, And Unless We Can Escape We Will Be Smashed In Inflation.

The Constitution Is America's Glue, Democracy Is The Constitution's Glue.

Somebody Has Inquired As To Whether I Will Be Going To The Opening Baseball Game. I Hope To Have That Pleasure.

The Spark Of Liberty In The Mind And Spirit Of Man Cannot Be Long Extinguished; It Will Break Into Flames That Will Destroy Every Coercion Which Seems To Limit It.

In The Great Mass Of Our People There Are Plenty Individuals Of Intelligence From Among Whom Leadership Can Be Recruited.

Freedom Conceives That The Mind And Spirit Of Man Can Be Free Only If He Is Free To Pattern His Own Life, To Develop His Own Talents, Free To Earn, To Spend, To Save, To Acquire Property As The Security Of His Old Age And His Family.

Never Worry About Anything That Is Past. Charge It Up To Experience And Forget The Trouble. There Are Always Plenty Of Troubles Ahead, So Don't Turn And Look Back On Any Behind You.

We Are In Danger Of Developing A Cult Of The Common Man, Which Means A Cult Of Mediocrity.

Be Patient And Calm; No One Can Catch Fish In Anger.

There Is No Other Book So Various As The Bible, Nor One So Full Of Concentrated Wisdom.

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.

The Sixth Grade Made My Life Successful By Preparing Me For The Seventh And The Seventh By Preparing Me For The Eighth And So On. May It Do The Same For You.

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The Use Of The Atomic Bomb, With Its Indiscriminate Killing Of Women And Children, Revolts My Soul.

Engineering Without Imagination Sinks To A Trade.

Fishing Is The Chance To Wash One's Soul With Pure Air. It Brings Meekness And Inspiration, Reduces Our Egoism, Soothes Our Troubles And Shames Our Wickedness. It Is Discipline In The Equality Of Men--for All Men Are Equal Before Fish.

One Of The Primary Necessities Of The World For The Maintenance Of Peace Is The Elimination Of The Frictions Which Arise From Competitive Armament.

With Impressive Proof On All Sides Of Magnificent Progress, No One Can Rightly Deny The Fundamental Correctness Of Our Economic System.

The More Complex The Problems Of The Nation Become, The Greater Is The Need For More And More Advanced Instruction.

Along This Road Of Spending, The Government Either Takes Over, Which Is Socialism, Or Dictates Institutional And Economic Life, Which Is Fascism.

The American People Are Doing Their Job Today. They Should Be Given A Chance To Show Whether They Wish To Preserve The Principles Of Individual And Local Responsibility And Mutual Self-help Before They Embark On What I Believe To Be A Disastrous System. I Feel Sure They Will Succeed If Given The Opportunity.

I Was For A Short Time On The Baseball Team As Shortstop, Where I Was Not So Good.

We Must Not Be Misled By The Claim That The Source Of All Wisdom Is In The Government.

It Is A Great Profession. There Is The Fascination Of Watching A Figment Of The Imagination Emerge Through The Aid Of Science To A Plan On Paper. Then It Moves To Realization In Stone Or Metal Or Energy. Then It Brings Jobs And Homes To Men. Then It Elevates The Standards Of Living And Adds To The Comforts Of Life. That Is The Engineer's High Privilege.

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.

Please Find Me A One-armed Economist So We Will Not Always Hear, "on The Other Hand..."

Fishing Is A Constant Reminder Of The Democracy Of Life, Of Humility, And Of Human Frailty. The Forces Of Nature Discriminate For No Man.

A Good Fisherman Can Secure Many Regenerative Hours In Winter, Polishing Up The Rods And Reels.

Every Generation Has The Right To Build Its Own World Out Of The Materials Of The Past, Cemented By The Hopes Of The Future.

When The Outcome Of A Meeting Is To Have Another Meeting, It Has Been A Lousy Meeting.

Freedom Is The Open Window Through Which Pours The Sunlight Of The Human Spirit And Human Dignity.

The Supreme Purpose Of History Is A Better World.

Menaced By Collectivist Trends, We Must Seek Revival Of Our Strength In The Spiritual Foundations Which Are The Bedrock Of Our Republic. Democracy Is The Outgrowth Of The Religious Conviction Of The Sacredness Of Every Human Life. On The Religious Side, Its Highest Embodiment Is The Bible; On The Political Side, The Constitution.

The Gods Do Not Deduct From Man's Allotted Span The Hours Spent In Fishing.

American Business Needs A Lifting Purpose Greater Than The Struggle Of Materialism.

The Durability Of Free Speech And Free Press Rests On The Simple Concept That It Search For The Truth And Tell The Truth.

The Advancement Of Knowledge Must Be Translated Into Increasing Health And Education For The Children.

We Have Learned That Social Injustice Is The Destruction Of Justice Itself.

Twenty Million People Are Starving. Whatever Their Politics, They Shall Be Fed!

About The Time We Can Make The Ends Meet, Somebody Moves The Ends.

We Have Gold Because We Cannot Trust Governments

We Cannot Change Ideas In The Minds Of Men And Races With Machine Guns Or Battle Ships.

If We Could Have But One Generation Of Properly Born, Trained, Educated, And Healthy Children, A Thousand Other Problems Of Government Would Vanish.

You Cannot Extend The Mastery Of Government Over The Daily Life Of A People Without Somewhere Making It Master Of People's Souls And Thoughts.... Every Step In That Direction Poisons The Very Roots Of Liberalism. It Poisons Political Equality, Free Speech, Free Press, And Equality Of Opportunity. It Is The Road Not To More Liberty But To Less Liberty.

Presidents Have Only Two Moments Of Personal Seclusion. One Is Prayer; The Other Fishing - And They Cannot Pray All The Time!

I Was Not Able To Work Up Much Enthusiasm Over The Ball Game, And In The Midst Of It I Was Handed A Note Informing Me Of The Sudden Death Of Senator Dwight Morrow. He Had Proved A Great Pillar Of Strength In The Senate And His Death Was A Great Loss To The Country And To Me. I Left The Ballpark With The Chant Of The Crowd Ringing In My Ears, 'we Want Beer!'

Peace Is Not Made At The Council Table Or By Treaties, But In The Hearts Of Men.

Lewis Strauss Is One Of My Best Friends.

Prosperity Is Just Around The Corner.

The Association Of Mount Ararat And Noah, The Staunch Christians Who Were Massacred Periodically By The Mohammedan Turks, And The Sunday School Collections Over Fifty Years For Alleviating Their Miseries-all Cumulate To Impress The Name Armenia On The Front Of The American Mind.

Prosperity Cannot Be Restored By Raids Upon The Public Treasury.

Public Health Service Should Be As Fully Organized And As Universally Incorporated Into Our Governmental System As Is Public Education. The Returns Are A Thousand Fold In Economic Benefits, And Infinitely More In Reduction Of Suffering And Promotion Of Human Happiness.

I Pride Myself On Being One Of The Oldest Fans. I Can Certainly Count Up About Seventy Years Of Devotion.

In Its Broad Aspects, The Proper Feeding Of Children Revolves Around A Public Recognition Of The Interdependence Of The Human Animal Upon His Cattle. The White Race Cannot Survive Without Dairy Products.

I Suppose I Could Have Called In The Whole Of The Army, But What Was The Use? All I Had To Do Was Call In Main Street Itself.

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.

The Thing I Enjoyed Most Were Visits From Children. They Did Not Want Public Office.

We Supported The Cooperative Movement Among Farmers. The Movement Was Still Young And Stubbornly Opposed To The Commercial Distributors. I Believed It To Be One Of The Most Helpful Undertakings, For According To My Social Theories Any Organization Run By Citizens For Their Own Welfare Is Preferable To The Same Action By The Government.

But I Would Emphasize Again That Social And Economic Solutions, As Such, Will Not Avail To Satisfy The Aspirations Of The People Unless They Conform With The Traditions Of Our Race, Deeply Grooved In Their Sentiments Through A Century And A Half Of Struggle For Ideals Of Life That Are Rooted In Religion And Fed From Purely Spiritual Springs.

Next To Prayer, Fishing Is The Most Personal Relationship Of Man.

Competition Is Not Only The Basis Of Protection To The Consumer, But Is The Incentive To Progress.

Our Strength Lies In Spiritual Concepts. It Lies In Public Sensitivities To Evil. Our Greatest Danger Is Not From Invading Armies. Our Dangers Are That We May Commit Suicide From Within By Complaisance With Evil, Or By Public Tolerance Of Scandalous Behavior.

A Boy Has Two Jobs. One Is Just Being A Boy. The Other Is Growing Up To Be A Man.

Wisdom Often Consists Of Knowing What To Do Next.

The Study Of This Book In Your Bible Classes Is A Post-graduate Course In The Richest Library Of Human Experience.

Once The Day's Work Starts There Is Little Chance To Walk, To Ride Or To Take Part In A Game. Taking Walks Or Rides Early In The Morning Is A Lonesome Business, And The Inevitable Secret Service Guard When The President Leaves The White House Grounds Is Not Enlivening Company.

I Am Convinced That ... We Have Reestablished Confidence. Wages Should Remain Stable. A Very Large Degree Of Industrial Unemployment And Suffering Which Would Otherwise Have Occurred Has Been Prevented.

An Ideal Is An Unselfish Aspiration. Its Purpose Is The General Welfare Not Only Of This But Of Future Generations. It Is A Thing Of The Spirit. It Is A Generous And Humane Desire That All Men May Share Equally In A Common Good. Our Ideals Are The Cement, Which Binds Human Society.

Truth Alone Can Stand The Guns Of Criticism.

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.

Words Without Actions Are The Assassins Of Idealism.

Self-government Can Succeed Only Through An Instructed Electorate.

Baseball Is The Greatest Of All Team Sports.

The Worst Evil Of Disregard For Some Law Is That It Destroys Respect For All Laws.

Let Us Not Forget That The Value Of This Great System Does Not Lie Primarily In Its Extent Or Even In Its Efficiency. Its Worth Depends On The Use That Is Made Of It... For The First Time In Human History We Have Available To Us The Ability To Communicate Simultaneously With Millions Of Our Fellowmen, To Furnish Entertainment, Instruction, Widening Vision Of National Problems And National Events. An Obligation Rests On Us To See That It Is Devoted To Real Service And To Develop The Material That Is Transmitted Into That Which Is Really Worthwhile.

There Are Only Three Ways To Meet The Unpaid Bills Of A Nation. The First Is Taxation. The Second Is Repudiation. The Third Is Inflation.

Children Add To The Wonder Of Being Alive.

Man Is Still By Instinct A Predatory Animal Given To Devilish Aggression. The Discoveries Of Science Have Immensely Increased Productivity Of Material Things. They Have Increased The Standards Of Living And Comfort. They Have Eliminated Infinite Drudgery. They Have Increased Leisure. But That Gives More Time For Devilment. The Work Of Science Has Eliminated Much Disease And Suffering. It Has Increased The Length Of Life. That, Together With Increase In Productivity, Has Resulted In Vastly Increased Populations. Also It Increased The Number Of People Engaged In Devilment.

I Am Convinced That Through These Measures We Have Reestablished Confidence.

Great Depression

It Is Just As Important That Business Keep Out Of Government As That Government Keep Out Of Business.

Rugged Individualism

Whatever Doubt There May Be As To The Quality Or Purpose Of Our Free Speech We Certainly Have Ample Volumes In Production.

Lots Of People Committed Crimes During The Year Who Would Not Have Done So If They Had Been Fishing. The Increase Of Crime Is Among Those Deprived Of The Regenerations That Impregnate The Mind And Character Of The Fisherman.

No Prosaic Description Can Portray The Grandeur Of 40 Miles Of Rugged Mountains Rising Beyond A Placid Lake In Which Each Shadowy Precipice And Each Purple Gorge Is Reflected With A Vividness That Rivals The Original.

I Returned To The White House After Midnight More Depressed Than Ever Before. I Had Long Since Arranged To Attend The World Series In Philadelphia The Next Day. Although I Like Baseball, I Kept This Engagement Only Because I Felt That My Presence At A Sporting Event Might Be A Gesture Of Reassurance To A Country Suffering From A Severe Attack Of 'jitters.'

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 Boyhood Ambition Was To Be Able To Earn My Own Living, Without The Help Of Anybody, Anywhere.

Fishing Is Much More Than Fish. It Is The Great Occasion When We May Return To The Fine Simplicity Of Our Forefathers.

We Need To Add To The Three R's, Namely Reading, 'riting, And 'rithmetic, A Fourth--- Responsibility.

Honor Is Not The Exclusive Property Of Any Political Party.

Gentleman, You Have Come Sixty Days Too Late. The Depression Is Over.

Blessed Are The Young For They Shall Inherit The National Debt.

Being A Politician Is A Poor Profession. Being A Public Servant Is A Noble One.

There Are Only Two Occasions When Americans Respect Privacy, Especially In Presidents. Those Are Prayer And Fishing.

The Outlook Of The World Today Is For The Greatest Era Of Commercial Expansion In History. The Rest Of The World Will Become Better Customers.

More Than Ten Million Women March To Work Every Morning Side By Side With The Men. Steadily The Importance Of Women Is Gaining Notonly 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.

The Ancient Bitter Opposition To Improved Methods [of Production] On The Ancient Theory That It More Than Temporarily Deprives Men Of Employment... Has No Place In The Gospel Of American Progress.

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.

We Do Not Need To Burn Down The House To Kill The Rats

Unless The U.n. Is Completely Reorganized Without The Communist Nations In It, We Should Get Out Of It.

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.

If The Law Is Upheld Only By Government Officials, Then All Law Is At An End.

The Most Essential Factor To Economic Recovery Today [1932] Is The Restoration Of Confidence.

[professional Engineers] Must For Years Abandon Their White Collars Except For Sunday.

Hunger Is The Mother Of Anarchy.

[n]o Country Can Squander Itself To Prosperity On The Ruin Of Its Taxpayers.

. And It Is Youth Who Must Inherit The Tribulation, The Sorrow And The Triumphs That Are The Aftermath Of War.

The Party Should Stand For A Constantly Wider Diffusion Of Property. That Is The Greatest Social And Economic Security That Can Come To Free Men. It Makes Free Men. We Want A Nation Of Proprietors, Not A State Of Collectivists. That Is Attained By Creating A National Wealth And Income, Not By Destroying It. The Income And Estate Taxes Create An Orderly Movement To Diffuse Swollen Fortunes More Effectively Than All The Quacks.

No Public Man Can Be Just A Little Crooked. There Is No Such Thing As A No-man's Land Between Honesty And Dishonesty.

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.

No Public Man Can Be Just A Little Crooked.

National Character Cannot Be Built By Law. It Is The Sum Of The Moral Fiber Of Its Individuals.

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.

I Am Interested To Learn That A Group Of Distinguished Men And Women Is To Be Formed To Spread Knowledge And Appreciation Of The Rehabilitation Which Is Going Forward In Palestine Under Jewish Auspices, And To Add My Expression To The Sentiment Among Our People In Favor Of The Realization Of The Age-old Aspirations Of The Jewish People For The Restoration Of Their National Homeland.

Unemployment In The Sense Of Distress Is Widely Disappearing. . . . We In America Today Are Nearer To The Final Triumph Over Poverty Than Ever Before In The History Of Any Land. The Poor-house Is Vanishing From Among Us. We Have Not Yet Reached The Goal, But Given A Change To Go Forward With The Policies Of The Last Eight Years, And We Shall Soon With He Help Of God Be In Sight Of The Day When Poverty Will Be Banished From This Nation. There Is No Guarantee Against Poverty Equal To A Job For Every Man. That Is The Primary Purpose Of The Economic Policies We Advocate

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.

I Can At Once Refute The Statement That The People Of The West Object To Conservation Of Oil Resources. They Know That There Is A Limit To Oil Supplies And That The Time Will Come When They And The Nation Will Need This Oil Much More Than It Is Needed Now. There Are No Half Measures In Conservation Of Oil.

Any Lack Of Confidence In The Economic Future Or The Basic Strength Of Business In The United States Is Foolish.

The Pause Between The Errors And Trials Of The Day And The Hopes Of The Night.

Engineering Training Deals With The Exact Sciences. That Sort Of Exactness Makes For Truth And Conscience. It Might Be Good For The World If More Men Had That Sort Of Mental Start In Life Even If They Did Not Pursue The Profession.

The Only Trouble With Capitalism Is Capitalists; They're Too Damn Greedy.

When I Decided To Go Into Politics I Weighed The Costs. I Would Get Criticism. But I Went Ahead. So When Virulent Criticism Came I Wasn't Surprised. I Was Better Able To Handle It.

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