Quote by Herbert Hoover
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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. – Herbert Hoover

Other quotes by Herbert Hoover

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. – Herbert Hoover

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Women
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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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Freedom
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But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful. – Alan Watts

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power

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. – Tom Stoppard

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power

This is the pain pacemaker. Ive got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. Its tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know? – Jerry Lewis

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power

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. – Sandra Day OConnor

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power

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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. – William Blake

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Theres a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. – Diane Arbus

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