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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.
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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The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
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Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
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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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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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Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, On the other hand...
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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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