Quote by Herbert Hoover
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoo

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. – Herbert Hoover

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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves. – Herbert Hoover

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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. – William F. Buckley

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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. – A.E. Housman

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Ideals are the worlds masters. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to ones distance from the problem. – John Galsworthy

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