It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

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• Herbert Hoover:

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

• Herbert Hoover:

  There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are pr

• Herbert Hoover:

  When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an unc

• Herbert Hoover:

  Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and econ

• Herbert Hoover:

  A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

• Herbert Hoover:

  Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

• Herbert Hoover:

  Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

• Herbert Hoover:

  Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

• Herbert Hoover:

  In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

• Maurice Chevalier:

  Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.