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  • To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

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    Men  
    Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

  • Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.

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    Men  
    1951 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

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    "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1996.

  • 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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    Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.162, Stanford University Press

  • You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty.

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    United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President”

  • 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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    United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”
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Herbert Hoover

  • Born: August 10, 1874
  • Died: October 20, 1964
  • Occupation: 31st U.S. President
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