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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.

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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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Mining Engineer
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West Branch
Iowa
Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert C. Hoover
President Hoover
H. C. Hoover
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All men are equal before fish.
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The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
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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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The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.
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Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.
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Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
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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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Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.
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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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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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All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
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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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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
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