Political Quotes

On the recordApril 26, 1931
To interrupt a man's sleep and jerk him from the realm of real bliss into the cold realities of another day is a greater invasion of human liberty than any yet wrought by the 18th amendment.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address to the Gridiron Club.

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