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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

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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The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
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It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
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American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, Am I my brother's keeper?
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The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.
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I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.
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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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I outlived the bastards.
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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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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
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The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
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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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My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
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