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Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover
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Herbert Hoover
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: August 10
Died: 1964
Died: October 20
31St U.S. President
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Iowa
Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert C. Hoover
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Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.
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The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.
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Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.
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The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.
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The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.
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When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
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No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
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Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
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Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.
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If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
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Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.
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The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
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