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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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Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
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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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We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.
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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
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The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.
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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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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
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Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.
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It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.
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There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
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We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.
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Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
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One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.
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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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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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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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We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.
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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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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
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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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