Political Quotes

On the recordOctober 18, 1931
We thank you not alone for fine courtesy but for the inspiration which comes from Virginia.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Remarks at a Luncheon of the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission in Yorktown, Virginia.

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It is folly for the world to go on breaking its back over military expenditure, and the United States is willing to take its share of responsibility by making definite proposals that will relieve the world.

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