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Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
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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While I can make no claim for having introduced the term rugged individualism, I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.
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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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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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Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
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A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.
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Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
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Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.
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Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.
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The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
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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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Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
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Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
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The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists they're too damn greedy.
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The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.
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We have gold because we cannot trust governments
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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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