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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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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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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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It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
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Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
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The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
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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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One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.
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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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American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
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Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
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Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
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All men are equal before fish.
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Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.
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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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