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Quote by Herbert Hoover
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing t

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. – Herbert Hoover

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

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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare! – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. – James A. Baldwin

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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. – Ida Tarbell

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