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| Herbert Hoover
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.Children are our most valuable natural resource. I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. 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. Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life
than any other
institution.
-No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. No public man can be just a little crooked. 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. When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. |
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