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I outlived the bastards.
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
H. C. Hoover
H. Hoover
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The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
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When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
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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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The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
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Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.
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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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The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.
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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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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
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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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Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.
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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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Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.
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The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.
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