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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.

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Herbert Hoover

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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

I Dare Predict That The Influence Of The Treaty Of Renunciation Of War Will Be Felt In A Large Proportion Of All Future International Acts.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Truth Alone Can Stand The Guns Of Criticism.

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Liberalism Should Be Found Not Striving To Spread Bureaucracy But Striving To Set Bounds To It. True Liberalism Seeks All Legitimate Freedom First In The Confident Belief That Without Such Freedom The Pursuit Of All Other Blessings And Benefits Is Vain. That Belief Is The Foundation Of All American Progress, Political As Well As Economic.

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.

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

Reports To The Surgeon General Represent The Final Word Upon The Efficient And Devoted Sense Of Responsibility Of Our People In This Obligation To Our Fellow Citizens. Overwhelmingly They Confirm The Fact That The General Mortality Rate, Infant Mortality Rate, Epidemics, The Disease Rate - Are Less Than In Normal Times. There Is But One Explanation. That Is, That Through An Aroused Sense Of Public Responsibility, Those In Destitution And Their Children Are Receiving Actually More Adequate Care Than Even In Normal Times.

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.

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.

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

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

I Am Sure I'd Have Made A Better All-around Man If I Hadn't Lost So Much Time Just Making A Living.

Engineering Without Imagination Sinks To A Trade.

True American Liberalism Utterly Denies The Whole Creed Of Socialism.

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I Am Firmly Opposed To The Government Entering Into Any Business The Major Purpose Of Which Is Competition With Our Citizens... For The Federal Government Deliberately To Go Out To Build Up And Expand... A Power And Manufacturing Business Is To Break Down The Initiative And Enterprise Of The American People; It Is The Destruction Of Equality Of Opportunity Amongst Our People, It Is The Negation Of The Ideals Upon Which Our Civilization Has Been Based.

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

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.

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

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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.

It Was The Transcendent Fortitude And Steadfastness Of These Men Who In Adversity And In Suffering Through The Darkest Hour Of Our History Held Faithful To An Ideal. Here Men Endured That A Nation Might Live.

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 Send You My Hearty Congratulations Upon Beginning The Thirtieth Year Of Your Great Career As Manager Of The New York Giants, In Which You Have Done So Much To Uphold The Traditions Of Clean Sportsmanship In The Most Beloved National Game.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Economic Depression Can Not Be Cured By Legislative Action Or Executive Pronouncement.

Next To Religion, Baseball Has Had A Greater Impact On Our American Way Of Life Than Any Other American Institution.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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