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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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The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.
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Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.
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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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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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Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, On the other hand...
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Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.
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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
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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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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
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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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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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Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.
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Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.
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New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
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