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The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.
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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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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Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
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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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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
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American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, Am I my brother's keeper?
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It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.
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Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.
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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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Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.
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I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set-backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by the remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country.
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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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There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.
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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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While I can make no claim for having introduced the term rugged individualism, I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.
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We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.
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The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
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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 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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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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