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Herbert Hoover: “Carried to its logical extreme, all this shouldering of individual and community responsibility upon the Government can…”

On the recordFebruary 11, 1931
Carried to its logical extreme, all this shouldering of individual and community responsibility upon the Government can lead but to the superstate where every man becomes the servant of the State and real liberty is lost.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Radio Address on Lincoln's Birthday.

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