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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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American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
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The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.
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Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.
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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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True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.
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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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I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live.
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I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.
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All men are equal before fish.
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If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
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Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.
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Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.
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The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin
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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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No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
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It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
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A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.
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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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