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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
Herbert C. Hoover
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We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.
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We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.
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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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The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists they're too damn greedy.
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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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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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If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
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When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
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Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
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A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.
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We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.
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Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
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Fishing is more than fish it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.
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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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No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
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The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.
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I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.
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