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    About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

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    Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

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    A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

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    Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

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    A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

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    A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

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    All men are equal before fish.

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    All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

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    Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

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    Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

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    America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

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    American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

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    American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

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    . And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

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    An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.

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    Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

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    Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

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    A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.

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    Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

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    Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

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    Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

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    Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

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    Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

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    But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.

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    Children add to the wonder of being alive.

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    Children are our most valuable natural resource.

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    Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

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    Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

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    Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

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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.

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    Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

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    Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

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    Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

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    Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

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    Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

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    Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.

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    Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

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    Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.

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    Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

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    Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

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    Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

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    Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

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    Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.

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    Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

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    Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

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    Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

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    Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

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    Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

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    Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

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    Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.