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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
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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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Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
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It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack
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The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.
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Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.
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It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.
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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
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[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
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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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When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
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We have gold because we cannot trust governments
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Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.
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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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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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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
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