President Herbert Hoover

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    “Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of “Emergency”. It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    “Oh, the shame of it! That I should live to see a son of mine try to take a dame away from his father!”
    —S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, Huxley College president after catching his son Frank (Zeppo Marx)

    “th’ other black and grave, wherewith each one
    Is checker’d all along,
    Humilitie:”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)