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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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West Branch
Iowa
Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert C. Hoover
President Hoover
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Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.
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The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.
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The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.
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The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists they're too damn greedy.
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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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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.
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I outlived the bastards.
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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
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National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.
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A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
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The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.
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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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Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack
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The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.
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[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
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The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
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The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.
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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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