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The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.
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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I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.
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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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There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.
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My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
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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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New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
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Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
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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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Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
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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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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
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Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.
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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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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
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The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
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Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
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We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.
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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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