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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

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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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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. – Herbert Hoover

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