Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by William D. Hoard (American Elected Rep)

William Dempster Hoard (1836–1918) was the 16th Governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin from 1889 to 1891. Born in Stockbridge, New York, he moved to Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. During the American Civil War, Hoard served in the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment as a musician until he was discharged for medical reasons. He went back to New York to recover and served briefly in the 1st New York Artillery Regiment. Returning to Wisconsin, he got involved with the hops industry, but the glut and decline in the industry left him without money. He was a member of the Republican Party, but was an outsider and an amateur in politics. He was a leading promoter of the dairy industry, through his weekly magazine Hoard’s Dairyman.

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Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.
—William D. Hoard
Topics: Happiness

The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can’t.
—William D. Hoard
Topics: Fools

Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.
—William D. Hoard

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