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Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

— 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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