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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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There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
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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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Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
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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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Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.
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