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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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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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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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The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
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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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While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.
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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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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.
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One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.
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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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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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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
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I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.
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Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
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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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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
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The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
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It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack
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Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible on the political side, the Constitution.
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