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The American people from bitter experience have a rightful fear that great business units might be used to dominate our industrial life and by illegal and unethical practices destroy equality of opportunity...

— 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.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

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

The use of the atomic bomb with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

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