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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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Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.
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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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Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an idealist he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader.
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While I can make no claim for having introduced the term rugged individualism, I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.
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The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin
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In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.
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Prosperity is just around the corner.
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The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.
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Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
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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 more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.
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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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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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Children add to the wonder of being alive.
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