President Herbert Hoover

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    “The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    “We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.”
    —Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)

    “Mark you the floore? that square & speckled stone,
    Which looks so firm and strong,
    Is Patience:”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)