Petrus, Päpste, Präsidenten
Von Petrus bis Franziskus, von George Washington bis Donald Trump - Päpste und Präsidenten aus zwei Jahrtausenden
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
Weisheit ist mehr als Wissen: Es kommt darauf an, was zu tun ist, und nicht, was zunächst getan werden soll.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
Ältere Herren erklären den Krieg. Aber es ist die Jugend, die kämpfen und sterben muß.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
New discoveries in science . . . will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
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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Herbert Clarke Hoover
Once upon a time my opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
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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Herbert Clarke Hoover
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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Herbert Clarke Hoover
No public man can be a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's-land between honesty and dishonesty.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
If you take a worm's eye view of the ills in American life and our foreign relations, you may worry that we are entering the decline and fall to the greatest nation in history. If you take a bird's eye view you will see the increasing skills, growing productivity, and the expansion of education and understanding, with improving health and growing strength all over our nation. And from whence came this strength? It lies in freedom of men's initiative and the rewards of their efforts. It comes from our devotion to liberty and religious faith. We will have no decline and fall of this nation, provided we stand guard against the evils which would weaken these forces.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
Recently, in my opinion, there has been too much talk about the Common Man. It has been dinned into us that this it the Century of the Common Man. The idea seems to be that the Common Man has come into his own at last. But I have never been able to find out who this is. In fact, most Americans will get mad and fight if you try calling them common . . . I have never met a father and mother who did not want their children to grow up to be uncommon men and women. May it always be so. For the future of America rests not in mediocrity, but in the constant renewal of leadership in every phase of our national life.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
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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Herbert Clarke Hoover
That the government takes up to 50% of the profits from professional earnings or business transactions, while the individual takes all the risks, is intensely discouraging to initiative.
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Herbert Clarke Hoover
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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Herbert Clarke Hoover
Any man who is physically able has no right to refuse service to his country.