Quote by Herbert Hoover
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a constr

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. – 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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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. – Herbert Hoover

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I hate all politics. I dont like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. – Ray Bradbury

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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. – Wendell Berry

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