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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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In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.
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Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.
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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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Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
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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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Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
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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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