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National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.
Herbert Hoover
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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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When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
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It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.
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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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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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I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.
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All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
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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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When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
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Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.
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I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
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All men are equal before fish.
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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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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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The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
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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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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
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