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The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.
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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The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
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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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If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
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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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Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.
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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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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
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Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.
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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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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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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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We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.
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Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, On the other hand...
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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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The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.
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