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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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Herbert Hoover
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: August 10
Died: 1964
Died: October 20
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Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
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Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an idealist he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader.
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It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.
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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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Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.
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The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.
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