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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It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war. – Herbert Hoover

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Fishing is a… discipline in the equality of men – for all men are equal before fish. – Herbert Hoover

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody. – Dick Armey

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. – Aldous Huxley

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The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Only very intelligent people dont wish they were in politics, and Im dumb enough to want to be in there. – Orson Welles

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