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[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
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
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Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert C. Hoover
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It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
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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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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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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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A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.
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The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.
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I outlived the bastards.
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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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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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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.
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Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
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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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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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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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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
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