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Herbert Hoover: “No great step in public action can ever succeed without some compromise of view and some sacrifice of opinion.”

On the recordApril 18, 1929
No great step in public action can ever succeed without some compromise of view and some sacrifice of opinion.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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