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Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.

— Herbert Hoover The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928)

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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

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Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

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