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Herbert Hoover: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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From an article originally published in the February 6, 1949 issue of "This Week" Magazine, from "Addresses Upon the American Road,Volume: Volume 8: 1955-1960." Developed in speech entitled "Moral and Spiritual Recovery from War" presented October 13, 1945, at 75th Anniversary of Wilson College at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. "The Crusade Years, 1933–1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath", edited by George Nash
The Uncommon Man

“It does not follow, because our difficulties are stupendous, because there are some souls timorous enough to doubt the validity and effectiveness of our ideals and our system, that we must turn to a state controlled or state directed social or economic system in order to cure our troubles.”

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The Hoover Policies (1937)

“If, by the grace of God, we have passed the worst of this storm, the future months will be easy. If we shall be called upon to endure more of this period, we must gird ourselves for even greater effort, for today we are writing the introduction to the future history of civilization in America. The question is whether that history shall be written in terms of individual responsibility, and the capacity of the Nation for voluntary cooperative action, or whether it shall be written in terms of futile attempt to cure poverty by the enactment of law, instead of the maintained and protected initiative of our people.”

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Address to the Gridiron Club (27 April 1931)

“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”

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Quoted in obituaries (20 October 1964)

“I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life… more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”

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The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

“The American people from bitter experience have a rightful fear that great business units might be used to dominate our industrial life and by illegal and unethical practices destroy equality of opportunity…”

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The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928), Campaign speech in New York (22 October 1928)

“What the country needs is a good big laugh. … If someone could get off a good joke every ten days, I think our troubles would be over.”

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Statement http://books.google.com/books?id=6swLAAAAYAAJ&q=%22What+the+country+needs+is+a+good+big+laugh%22+%22if+some+one+could+get+off+a+good+joke+every+ten+days+i+think+our+troubles+would+be+over%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage to Raymond Clapper http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/clapper-raymond.cfm (c. February 1931)

“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.”

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Vol. 1, Issue 1, June 1922. http://books.google.com/books?id=KPlIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=%E2%80%9CIn+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.%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=MBJ6brhswK&sig=XePoKH5MnYp4pf1YwByblt2eu0M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EnxsUrubK8nLkQeos4HIAQ&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CIn%20its%20broad%20aspects%2C%20the%20proper%20feeding%20of%20children%20revolves%20around%20a%20public%20recognition%20of%20the%20interdependence%20of%20the%20human%20animal%20upon%20his%20cattle.%20The%20white%20race%20cannot%20survive%20without%20dairy%20products.%E2%80%9D&f=false <br class="br">The Dairy World (1922)

“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."”

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Source: The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Great Depression, 1929-1941 (1952), p. 2: Lead paragraph Chapter 1 : The origins of the Depression.

“In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of accomplishment more secure. In no nation is the government more worthy of respect. No country is more loved by its people. I have an abiding faith in their capacity, integrity and high purpose. I have no fears for the future of our country. It is bright with hope.”

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Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964 (1971)

“Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.”

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On Prohibition; sometimes misquoted as referring to Prohibition as "a noble experiment"; reported as such in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 47-48.
The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

“Wages have increased, the cost of living has decreased. The job of every man and woman has been made more secure. We have in this short period decreased the fear of poverty, the fear of unemployment, the fear of old age; and these fears that are the greatest calamities of human kind.”

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The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928), Campaign speech in New York (22 October 1928)

“As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our people who are in honest difficulties.”

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The Hoover Policies (1937)

“The high tenet of this philosophy (Liberalism) is that Liberty is an endowment from the Creator of every individual man and woman upon which no power, whether economic or political, can encroach, and that not even the government may deny. And herein it challenges all other philosophies of society and government; for all others, both before and since, insist that the individual has no such unalienable rights, that he is but the servant of the state. Liberalism holds that man is master of the state, not the servant; that the sole purpose of government is to nurture and assure these liberties. All others insist that Liberty is not a God-given right; that the state is the master of the man.”

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The Challenge to Liberty (1934)

“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.”

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The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

“The swimming hole is still in use. It has the same mudbank. It is still impossible to dress without carrying mud home in one’s inner garments. As an engineer I could devise improvements for that swimming hole. But I doubt if the decrease in mother’s grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would compensate the inherent joys of getting muddy.”

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The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

“This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.”

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Hoover Off the Record (1934)

“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.”

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On losing the presidency to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hoover Off the Record (1934)

“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.”

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Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964 (1971)

“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.”

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Quoted in the New York Times (17 October 1964)

“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.”

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The Hoover Policies (1937)

“With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.”

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The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

“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.”

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Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964 (1971)

“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.”

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Address at annual dinner of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States (1 May 1930). Hoover is sometimes misreported as having said on this occasion or another, "Prosperity is just around the corner"; reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 48.

“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.”

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Hoover Off the Record (1934)

“No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.”

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The Hoover Policies (1937)

“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”

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Address to the Nebraska Republican Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska (16 January 1936)