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Other Quotes by Herbert Hoover
- In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
- There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.
- Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
- The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see…
- If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
- The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times…
- A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.
- You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an…
- 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…
- My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity…
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