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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
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The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.
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One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.
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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.
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
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I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.
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Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.
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My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.
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Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.
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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
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It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
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Children add to the wonder of being alive.
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New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
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Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.
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The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.
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No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
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Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.
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The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.
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Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.
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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of Emergency. It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.
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