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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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Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.
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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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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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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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National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.
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We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
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Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.
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The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.
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I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.
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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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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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