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Herbert Hoover: Freedom was won here by fortitude not by the flash of the sword.

On the recordMay 29, 1931
Freedom was won here by fortitude not by the flash of the sword.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Memorial Day Address at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

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