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When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
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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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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Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
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I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.
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But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.
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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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A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
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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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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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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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I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.
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Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
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The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.
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Hunger is the mother of anarchy.
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[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
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Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
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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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Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
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The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
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There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
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