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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover
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Herbert Hoover
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: August 10
Died: 1964
Died: October 20
31St U.S. President
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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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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The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.
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Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible on the political side, the Constitution.
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The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources in the prevention of wasteful practices.
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When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
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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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Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
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The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
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I outlived the bastards.
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The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
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I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.
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I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.
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I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.
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The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
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The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.
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Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
Herbert Hoover
We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.
Herbert Hoover
New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
Herbert Hoover
Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an idealist he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader.
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