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Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

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Herbert Hoover
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: August 10
Died: 1964
Died: October 20
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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of Emergency. It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.
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Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.
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I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.
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I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.
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A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
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Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible on the political side, the Constitution.
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Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
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The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.
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The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
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Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.
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Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.
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We have gold because we cannot trust governments
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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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We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.
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There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
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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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