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Herbert Hoover: “If we break down this sense of responsibility of individual generosity to individual and mutual self-help in the country…”

On the recordFebruary 2, 1931
If we break down this sense of responsibility of individual generosity to individual and mutual self-help in the country in times of national difficulty and if we start appropriations of this character we have not only impaired something infinitely valuable in the life of the American people but have struck at the roots of self-government.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Statement on Public vs. Private Financing of Relief Efforts.

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