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" Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful. "

Herbert Hoover

Men

Free

People

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Knowing

Times

" Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. "

" Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. "

" Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family. "

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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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" Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. "

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Hair

Years

" When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation. "

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