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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
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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Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.
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Fishing is more than fish it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
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A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
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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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All men are equal before fish.
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Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.
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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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It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack
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The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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We have gold because we cannot trust governments
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Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
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Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.
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The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.
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No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.
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I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set-backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by the remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country.
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