Herbert Hoover Quotes

It is not force or fear, but belief in the inherent equality of man induces me to support this legislation.

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Women and men are equal human beings.

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.

Has the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different species? Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food. . . . And should we not then enjoy the same liberty. . .?

Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

Gay rights and human rights are one and the same.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

I believe there is complete equality between men and women.

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

When we are asleep, we are all equal.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.