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Tag: Herbert Hoover

(1874-1964), 31st U.S. President

Honest differences

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

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 15, 2021March 15, 2021Categories speechTags Herbert Hoover

Speak without fear

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think,
to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 25, 2020Categories speechTags Herbert Hoover

Collectivist emergencies

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of ‘emergency.’ It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini … This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.

Author Greg RavenPosted on September 16, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories collectivizationTags Herbert Hoover

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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