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Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity.

From Herbert Hoover

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.

From Herbert Hoover

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.

From Herbert Hoover

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

From Herbert Hoover

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.

From Herbert Hoover

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

From Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

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