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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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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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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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The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.
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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 slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
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The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.
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My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.
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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 job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.
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I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.
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American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
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Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.
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Children add to the wonder of being alive.
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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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Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.
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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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