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Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1929, to March 4, 1933. A member of the Republican Party, Hoover was born in Iowa but later moved to California. Before his presidency, he served as the Secretary of Commerce from 1921 to 1928, where he focused on promoting economic growth and efficiency. Hoover was also known for his humanitarian efforts during World War I, leading relief efforts in Europe and earning a reputation as a skilled administrator.
It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. 325-326), that the trust period on allotments made to Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation, S. Dak., which trust period expires during the calendar year…
The whole of our governmental machinery was devised for the purpose that through ordered liberty we give incentive and equality of opportunity to every individual to rise to that highest achievement of which he is capable.
Where people divest themselves of local government responsibilities they at once lay the foundation for the destruction of their liberties.
The true growth of the Nation is the growth of character in its citizens.
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.
Lincoln led in founding the Republican Party and he gloried in his party.
No stronger statement has ever been made than that of Lincoln upon obedience to law as the very foundation of our Republic.
Our concept of Federal, State, and local responsibilities is possible of no unchangeable definitions and it must shift with the moving forces in the Nation.
Success is not gained by leaning upon government to solve all the problems before us.
The ultimate goal of the American social ideal is equality of opportunity and individual initiative.
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