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We have gold because we cannot trust governments
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
Herbert C. Hoover
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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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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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Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.
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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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Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
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[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
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One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.
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Children add to the wonder of being alive.
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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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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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The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.
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Hunger is the mother of anarchy.
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I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
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The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.
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All men are equal before fish.
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The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
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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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While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.
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