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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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No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.
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I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.
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When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an idealist he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader.
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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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There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
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The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
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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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Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
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I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.
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Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.
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There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.
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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
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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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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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The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.
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The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.
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