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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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West Branch
Iowa
Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert C. Hoover
President Hoover
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Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.
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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of Emergency. It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.
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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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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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. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
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The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.
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We have gold because we cannot trust governments
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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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Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.
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All men are equal before fish.
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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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Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.
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The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.
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Prosperity is just around the corner.
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The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
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The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.
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Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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I outlived the bastards.
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