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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

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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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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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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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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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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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Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.
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True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.
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Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.
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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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