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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
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My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.
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It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
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We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.
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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
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All men are equal before fish.
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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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Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
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Fishing is more than fish it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.
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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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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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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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The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.
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In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.
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Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
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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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The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources in the prevention of wasteful practices.
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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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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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